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From: scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Summary: I Surrender!  :-)
Message-ID: <1460@lokkur.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 22:59:27 GMT
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Reply-To: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Organization: Inland Sea Software, Ltd.
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In article <5275@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
> [ and points out an inconsistancy in what I ask for ]
>So what you're wanting is for "reverse" to have two separate meanings.
>For sorting on the index screen, it would mean a reverse order from
>it's unreversed counterpart. For pager mode it would mean the reverse
>of whatever the index screen is. Why  have one option govern two
>actions in disparate ways?

Good point.  I had applied it two ways in my thinking, but you're
right -- that's not the way it would strike most people.

For the folks who asked -- yes, I always read my mail oldest to newest.
Often I'll get many messages in a group discussion, and prefer to see
the flow of logic (if any!) rather than start with the current state
and work backwards.  Kind of like reading news, actually.

Since Rob has been so good as to clarify the difference here, I think
this brings up yet another feature request.  We have ' ' for read next,
'j' and 'k' for read-downward and read-upward skipping deletes, 'J' and
'K' for read-downward and read-upward not skipping deletes.  I'd like
to hear folks opinions on an elmrc setting to redefine the meaning of
'next' for the space command.  Judging from the reaction so far there
is a small but real group who'd like that; hopefully we now have a
fairly exact definition of what that change would be.
reads the goes up/down to the next unread message.
-- 
Steve Simmons		...sharkey!lokkur!scs      scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
  "Gordon Way's astonishment at suddenly being shot dead was nothing to
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