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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.144604.2947@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Jun 91 14:46:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1991Jun24.144604.2947
References: <1991Jun20.044510.781@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM> <1991Jun20.192712.26853@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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In article <1991Jun20.192712.26853@ccu.umanitoba.ca> grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) writes:

>While I'm at it, Syd, I'll get my $.02 in for suggested changes to Elm.
>I would really like a simple way to abort any command, like hitting Esc.
>When users accidentally select something like (b)ounce or (r)eply, it would
>be nice if they could quickly cancel the command, rather than having to step
>through all the prompts until they finally get to tell Elm to (f)orget it.

Most of the comands that prompt for something will automatically abort if
you simply leave the field blank.  For example, if you hit "b", Elm will
prompt with "Send the message to:".  If you just hit return, the command
will be cancelled.  Likewise, "r" will prompt with "Subject: Re: original
subject".  If you backspace over the proposed subject and hit return,
you get a "No subject, continue with message? (y/n)" where you can easily
cancel the command.  The main exception is hitting "q", where you don't
have any way back.
I'd agree, though, that it would nice to have Escape cancel any command.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us