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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Undelete Cursor Movement
Keywords: undelete cursor
Message-ID: <4684@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 89 02:08:57 GMT
References: <287@wubios.wustl.edu> <101@titania.warwick.ac.uk> <673@friday.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <673@friday.UUCP> fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington) writes:
+I haven't been able to get the cursor *on* the deleted message in the
+*first place* so that I *can* undelete it!  With "resolve=OFF" you have
+a chance to Undelete right after Deleting, with "resolve=ON" you don't
+even get this chance.  In either case, once the cursor goes off a
+deleted message, all my attempts to get the cursor back on it to
+undelete it are in vain; it simply hops over the deleted ones.
+(Elm 2.1 PL1).

Although the 'j' and 'k' (and also DOWN and UP arrow) commands move the
cursor skipping over any deleted messages, the 'J' and 'K' commands do
NOT skip deleted messages. Also you can always go directly to a particular
message by entering its message number terminated with a carriage return.

[Gee, this question comes up about once every two months. Maybe we need an
"answers to frequently asked questions".]
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
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