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From: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions
Message-ID: <19905@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 16:15:29 GMT
References: <121@unifax.UUCP> <5283@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <125@unifax.UUCP>
Reply-To: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <125@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <5283@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>>In article <121@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>>+A couple of suggestions for elm:
[...]
>One other suggestion while I'm at it:
>
>	Could we add in an option to make elm through away all characters 
>	typed in advance. More like rn. 

I like being able to type-ahead, especially at slower baud rates or
heavily loaded systems (not a problem at MIPS though :-). Actually
there is an option to rn that enables type-ahead. I, for one, wish
that it were enabled by default.

>	
>	In fact adding a few more of the features rn has like gracefully 
>	terminating an operation when a SIGINT is received.

I second this idea. Perhaps the default action should be to return you 
to the index?


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