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From: CROBW@acad.cut.oz (Rob Wright, VMS Systems Group)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Suggested user interface enhancements
Message-ID: <1403@acad.cut.oz>
Date: 28 Nov 89 01:47:18 GMT
References: <733.2567e8ad@simpact.com>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <733.2567e8ad@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes:
> Some suggestions for future versions / patch levels:
> 
...
> 3.  Line editing (as in SET LINE) should be turned on by default, or perhaps
> this could be switched via a logical name.  Better still, it should be 
> possible to use the SET LINE command in the NEWSINI.NEWS file (as it is now,
> only define/key commands can appear in this file).  
> 
> 	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA

How often have you had a complex command on the screen with the character in
column, say, 3, incorrect? And, line edit is off! In this all too common
situation the desired feature is to have the line edit flip-flop changed by one
out-of-band control character. Naturally, the current status ought to show
somewhere on the screen.
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