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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Variants on a theme -- =, + and %
Message-ID: <1648@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 07:31:34 GMT
References: <1990Aug31.014944.12335@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1990Sep1.183857.14506@PacBell.COM> <1990Sep4.121426.16558@DRD.Com>
Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1990Sep4.121426.16558@DRD.Com> mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence) writes:
>david@PacBell.COM (David St. Pierre) wrote:
>} Mailers such as mush, mailx and Mail all use '+' to denote the mail
>} folder. I vote for keeping the '+' around - it's a lot easier training
>} users familiar with some of the other mailers out there.
>
>True, but '=' doesn't require 'shift' and since I switch folders a lot,
>I'd rather not shift.  Make it a configure option and everybody will be
>happy.
>-- 

Very keyboard dependant that. On my keyboard '=' requires shift and '+'
doesn't...

I think (like someone suggested) that '+' and '%' should be .elmrc
configurable to optionally mean another folder directory.
The default would of course be the same as '='.

	Jan D.