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Article #405Re: Improving mailbox browsing and curses mode
From: Bill Petro
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 1990 20:48
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 1990 20:48
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pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>I am tempted of switching to MUSH from ELM, but there two things that I
>think should be addressed, and one that could; first the important two:
I succumbed to the temptation long ago :-)
>2) Curses mode should be redone, or at least improved in two ways:
> 2.A) It should use *two* windows, a fixed one as of now, and a
> scrolling one for user interaction. Currently user interaction
> just dirties the screen; some care has been taken to make this
> happen relatively rarely, but still screen redraws are painful
> and confusing (and no, I don't like the idea of piping
> everything thru a pager, as this would still require a lot of
> screen redraws.
Of course this (and more) is available in the tool mode.
I too would love to see two "curses" windows. A headers "window"
and a message window would be super-tuffo-nifty-cool!
--
Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 19:12
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