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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Improving mailbox browsing and curses mode
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Date: 28 Jun 90 20:48:49 GMT
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pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:


>I am tempted of switching to MUSH from ELM, but there two things that I
>think should be addressed, and one that could; first the important two:

I succumbed to the temptation long ago :-)

>2) Curses mode should be redone, or at least improved in two ways:

>	2.A) It  should use *two* windows, a fixed one as of now, and a
>	scrolling one for user interaction. Currently user interaction
>	just dirties the screen; some care has been taken to make this
>	happen relatively rarely, but still screen redraws are painful
>	and confusing (and no, I don't like the idea of piping
>	everything thru a pager, as this would still require a lot of
>	screen redraws.

Of course this (and more) is available in the tool mode. 
I too would love to see two "curses" windows.  A headers "window"
and a message window would be super-tuffo-nifty-cool!


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     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12