Paul, at 18:30 on May 12 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> It would be interesting to see just how many people actually use 
BG> their mouse in Msged. 

PE> Quite a lot it seems from the number of people telling me 
PE> situations where the mouse cursor doesn't do such-and-such!

And I'll bet very few of those people would have complained if mouse
functions had been removed completely.  It doesn't do very much, you know.

BG> I don't, and consider the mouse pointer to be annoying, so why bother 
BG> displaying the mouse menu at all, if the mouse is switched off?  I also 
BG> think that the default should be "switch usemouse off".

PE> I thought the menu was also a prompt for you to be able to use
PE> Alt-keystrokes to get there.  Which you can for two of them anyway!

Which means that it's nothing to do with Alt-n keystrokes at all.  That's
what the F1 or Alt-H keystroke is for.

BG> "All decisions by the management are final, and no correspondence 
BG> will be entered into".  Sound familiar?  

PE> Not really, just final if you want me to do the work, and not 
PE> final at all if you want to change the source yourself!  :-)

I likely would if I could bloody well read it!

BG> Oh, and while I'm at it, can the colour file easily be made to accept 
BG> numeric values, rather than the long-winded alpha colour descriptions (or 
BG> even a combination of both, left up to the user)?

PE> I don't think people change the colours so often that they can
PE> remember the numeric short-hand anyway. 

Not a matter of remembering the numerics, more a matter of not having to
type bloody great long alpha descriptions when changing colours.  A simple
reference chart in the colour file would be sufficient (just like there
already is now for the apha descriptions).

PE> Not worth it, IMO.

It is when you're trying to configure a totally different colour scheme,
although the defaults (no colour file at all) are fairly good anyway.

Regards, Bill
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