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spencer@ernie.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) wrote in
<1993Jan10.011524.7527@Princeton.EDU>:

| Why not do the same thing for To:?  One extra carriage return for people
| who don't want to change it, and easy access for people who do want to.
| 
| I've always found it annoying to have to save the article and then
| remember to go to the header screen.  Especially if it's a long
| response, by the time I ZZ out of vi, I've forgotten that I wanted to
| change the header :-)

I find it extremely annoying and don't see anything in it to type smileys
about.

| This would not require using any additional command keys and would be a
| very minor change to the interface -- all you have to do is hit one
| extra carriage return, and if you forget, nothing bad will happen, you
| just have to hit carriage return again.

Count me as another user in STRONG favor of such a change.  I've stated so in
previous posts.  It's not only bad Reply-To: headers from mailing lists that
direct replies back to the list (one bit me just yesterday) but also people
whose return addresses are absolutely useless.  I set up an alias with a
valid return address for each such person but the r)eply command doesn't let
me type it in.  Instead I have to hold it in my head all throughout composi-
tion of the response that I'll have to go to the header screen afterward. 
That is very bad design.  There should, and I'll keep repeating this until
it is implemented, be a way to get to the header screen before entering the
editor; exiting the editor right away, fixing headers, and then returning to
the editor is inefficient with CPU use and with my time and keystrokes.

Allowing editing the To: line upon r)eply would go a long, long way toward
that fix.  Including headers in the editable text (as some versions of mailx
do) would be even better, but I guess most site administrators would blanch
at such a notion.

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