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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Visual Impact
Message-ID: <597@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 14:57:46 GMT
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Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <1397@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>The brackets mean "what's inside here is a message, what's outside isn't."
>>They are a delimiter, not punctuation.  So why not break the mold of what
>>us computer folks expect and still retain by punctuation by changing
>>	  [Deleting your entire mailbox.]
>>to
>>	[  Deleting your entire mailbox. ]
>
>>A very small change, but suddenly the message looks like what the
>>developers intended -- a tiny box holding a grammaticly correct
>>phrase.  It no longer looks like a double-punctuated phrase.  Note
>>the double-space at front, single at back.



This is a short patch to modify the bracketed messages.  It adds two
spaces before the left bracket, and one space before the right bracket.
This is an unofficial patch.  I have forwarded a copy to Syd Weinstein.

JB

*** builtin.c-	Thu Mar 30 10:35:11 1989
--- builtin.c	Mon Apr 24 10:19:44 1989
***************
*** 280,286 ****
  	    headers[current-1]->to);
  
  	  sprintf(title1, "%s %d/%d  ",
! 	      headers[current-1]->status & DELETED ? "[deleted]" :
  	      headers[current-1]->status & FORM_LETTER ? "Form": "Message",
  	      current, message_count);
  	  t1_len = strlen(title1);
--- 280,286 ----
  	    headers[current-1]->to);
  
  	  sprintf(title1, "%s %d/%d  ",
! 	      headers[current-1]->status & DELETED ? "[ deleted ]" :
  	      headers[current-1]->status & FORM_LETTER ? "Form": "Message",
  	      current, message_count);
  	  t1_len = strlen(title1);
*** leavembox.c-	Thu Mar 30 11:10:43 1989
--- leavembox.c	Mon Apr 24 10:17:13 1989
***************
*** 306,335 ****
  	  if (to_store > 0) {
  	    if (to_delete > 0)
  	      sprintf(buffer,
! 	            "[Keeping %d message%s, storing %d, and deleting %d.]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_store, to_delete);
  	    else
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[Keeping %d message%s and storing %d.]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_store);
  	  } else {
  	    if (to_delete > 0)
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[Keeping %d message%s and deleting %d.]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_delete);
  	    else
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[Keeping %s.]",
  		    to_keep > 1 ? "all messages" : "message");
  	  }
  	} else if (to_store > 0) {
  	  if (to_delete > 0)
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[Storing %d message%s and deleting %d.]", 
  		  to_store, plural(to_store), to_delete);
  	  else 
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[Storing %s.]",
  		  to_store > 1? "all messages" : "message");
  
  	} else {
  	  if (to_delete > 0)
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[Deleting all messages.]");
  	  else
  	    buffer[0] = '\0';
  	}
--- 306,335 ----
  	  if (to_store > 0) {
  	    if (to_delete > 0)
  	      sprintf(buffer,
! 	            "[  Keeping %d message%s, storing %d, and deleting %d. ]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_store, to_delete);
  	    else
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[  Keeping %d message%s and storing %d. ]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_store);
  	  } else {
  	    if (to_delete > 0)
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[  Keeping %d message%s and deleting %d. ]", 
  		    to_keep, plural(to_keep), to_delete);
  	    else
! 	      sprintf(buffer, "[  Keeping %s. ]",
  		    to_keep > 1 ? "all messages" : "message");
  	  }
  	} else if (to_store > 0) {
  	  if (to_delete > 0)
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[  Storing %d message%s and deleting %d. ]", 
  		  to_store, plural(to_store), to_delete);
  	  else 
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[  Storing %s. ]",
  		  to_store > 1? "all messages" : "message");
  
  	} else {
  	  if (to_delete > 0)
! 	    sprintf(buffer, "[  Deleting all messages. ]");
  	  else
  	    buffer[0] = '\0';
  	}
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