ozzmosis
Sun Mar 23 13:53:44 EST 2003

timed dirlist.c,1.4,1.5 header.c,1.3,1.4 readarea.c,1.5,1.6
Update of /cvsroot/timed
In directory blizzard.dnsalias.org:/tmp/cvs-serv50600

Modified Files:
	dirlist.c header.c readarea.c 
Log Message:
Here's a suggestion for a change in the request and attachment menus.
First of all it fixes some inconsistencies. Secondly it changes the
keybindings: My problem is, that C- is not recognized as
"Accept" as
suggested by the menu. In fact tgetkey() in idlekeyunix.c returns 13
regardless wether Control is pressed or not. So I always get the edit
window instead of finishing the attachment menu. I always have to press
Escape, which is somehow confusing since my understanding of Escape is
not to confirm something but to cancel it. So I would suggest the
following mapping:

 - Ins and Del are fine. (and pretty mnenomic, btw)
 - Space -> Edit the currently marked attachment.
 - Enter -> Confirm the attachment and close the menu.
 - Escape -> Cancel any actions and close the menu without attaching anything.

Similar for the File-Request menu. These are more or less my
preferences. So it's only a suggestion. To me this seems more consistent
in the sense of least surprise. But at least the menu legend should be
fixed to a unique form.

Also the code is partly cut'n'paste'd. So there are absolute coordinates
to find the desired position on the screen. This is ugly. One should
design this more abstractly. (But this has time, I think...)

- Meikel Brandmeyer 2:244/1165

Cleaned up some menu legends for consistancy.

'e' can now be used as an alternative to Ins and 'd' as an alternative
to Del in the File Request and File Attach menus.

- Andrew Clarke, 3:633/267


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