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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Variants on a theme -- =, + and %
Summary: User opinion solicited
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.014944.12335@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 31 Aug 90 01:49:44 GMT
Organization: Inland Sea
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One of the little-known features of elm folders is that the `+' and `%'
keys are synonyms for `='.  Any time you save a message to a folder, if
the folder name starts with any of the three characters the folder is
assumed to be in your folder directory.  The feature just recently
surfaced during some discussions in the development group; until then I
didn't know it existed.  We discussed it a bit, and couldn't come up
with a good reason for having three different characters.

One of the suggestions made (by me) was that we drop the `+' and `%'
and use only the `='.  This reduces the number of 'magic' characters in
elm, thereby reducing user confusion (by the way, this behaviour *is*
documented but only in a footnote).  But since this is a user-visible
change, it seems appropriate to poll the user community before doing
it.  Comments?