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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Look And Feel Changes To Elm
Message-ID: <5083@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 05:09:24 GMT
References: <5191@nis.mn.org> <5192@nis.mn.org> <5006@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1579@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <204@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <204@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> markw@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Mark H. Weber) writes:
+In article <1579@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>, aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
+> ... had to do an 'i' to go back and were hopelessly confused.
+   We have had the same complaint here.  I discovered that 'q' works as well
+as 'i' to return to the index. You might find this more natural.

I'm not sure why someone would be confused since it says rather explicitly
something like "i to return to index screen".

In any case to make things more consistent than they were, we decided on
the following (after lots and lots of discussion):

	i	returns you to the index screen from a variety of
		"subordinate" screens

	q	quits the current operation and pops you back to the
		next higher operation. (Thus on some "subordinate"
		screens this winds up being the same as 'i', and on the
		index screen this exits the program.)

Formerly there was all manner of characters to return to the index screen,
including 'x', 'r', 'q', .... We tried to tighten things up, to give
one meaning to each command keystroke consistently throughout elm as
much as was possible.
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