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Yet another enhancement suggestion...RETURN to confirm

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From: Richard Lloyd
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:52
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There are several users at our site who don't like the way Elm only requires
a single keypress (without RETURN to confirm) for its operations, often leading
to chaos (we had to disable the "Edit mailbox" on our Elm, because people were
typing "e", inserting a couple of characters by mistake into the mailbox,
exiting the edit and then ending up with a corrupted mailbox - has anyone else
noticed that Elm absolutely REFUSES to handle mailboxes with one or two
characters extra at the front of the first line ??).

Anyway, it would be nice for future Elm versions to be configurable as to
whether there's a single keypress ("m" for mail etc.) or a keypress + RETURN
(with the ability to overtype prior to pressing RETURN). Just a thought -
anyone else out there agree with me ?

Richard K. Lloyd, 
Computer Science Dept.,   JANET     : rkl@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
Liverpool University,     Internet  : rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk
Merseyside, England,    Q: "What's the world's fastest home micro ?"
Great Britain.          A: "The Archimedes A3000. 4 MIPS for under 800 pounds."
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From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
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Subject: Yet another enhancement suggestion...RETURN to confirm
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Date: 22 Jan 93 10:52:57 GMT
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