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From: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP
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Subject: wish list
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 13:12:04 EST
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Here are a few things I'd like. Please tell me how to get them if they've
already been done.

1.) a BIG cut buffer. The macintosh can cut and paste a chunk of text at
least 32k long. The X system I am running on my Sun 3/50s seems to
truncate the cut buffer at about 512 characters: much too short for a
paragraph of text or a single lisp function.

2.) A version of csh that will show me the directory structure as a tree,
with my current working directory marked on the picture of the tree, so I
can cd by pointing with the mouse at the new position I want to be.
(with the non-directory files, at each point, drawn in a grayed-out font,
so I can shift click to copy a file name into the cut buffer.)

3.) a similar smart interface to readnews (rn) and to mail. Let's get out
of this multiple-pseudo-vt100-xterm-window dark ages.

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