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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: G whiz
Keywords: confusion
Message-ID: <472@texas.dk>
Date: 21 Feb 90 13:10:34 GMT
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storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>If there are no extra articles in the group, it skips the menu, and
>goes directly to the "enter subject" prompt (the = sign).

chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:
>BUT maybe the reason I typed the G command was that I just "thought" there
>might be some more, older stuff around (I intended to type All next).

You are right, but for the moment, just answering (return) to the "="
prompt will cancel the G command, so it is fairly easy to "get around"
this problem.

However, I can see that the current behaviour may cause problems
inside a macro, since you don't know whether the G command will give
a menu or not.  So it should probably be changed to always give
the "Number of Articles" prompt.  The default action in the "no more
articles" case could then be "=".

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