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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Save Tagged Mail _Fast_!
Keywords: calm
Message-ID: <185@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:39:23 GMT
References: <1989Aug23.121938.2967@DRD.Com> <2969@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1989Aug23.225206.538@DSI.COM> <214@fe2o3.UUCP> <1989Aug25.014846.16421@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <1989Aug25.014846.16421@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>rusty@fe2o3.UUCP (Rusty Haddock) writes:
>>Actions like this, when taken by a program, can upset the program's users
>>(knowledgable or not) and that's not one of the basic ideas behind the
>>design of a user interface.
>
>In the many years of Elm's evolution, this problem has not cropped
>up until now, yet this code is unchanged for probably three years.

I have to just say that I've been bitten by this a couple of times, and I've
seen users bitten by it too.  Our standard editor round here exit(1)s if you
quit out, discarding any changes, so typically you type your message, leave
the editor normally, reenter the editor to make some changes, realise that
you didn't have to after all and quit out.  Oops, start again.

Rob
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