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to: Paul Edwards
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1995-07-30 09:03:40
subject: msged/sq 3.11 alpha

Paul, at 04:09 on Jul 30 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Dunno, to replace the original intuitive Alt-A with Alt-X (which had 
BG> previously been used as a global exit) seems extremely retrograde to me.  

PE> Actually, out of the main screens in 3.10 and prior, there are:

PE> area list
PE> message list
PE> reader
PE> help

You forgot to mention the editor and its help screen.

PE> screens.  And your "global exit" becomes "well one out of the
PE> four, anyway". 

It's one out of six actually.  Happy now?  :)

Anyway, I think you're missing the point completely, as my main
"complaint" was that exiting Msged is now only possible from the
area list, and nowhere else (fancy F-key macros notwithstanding).  I'm
slowly getting used to it though.

Regards, Bill
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