[Alpine-info] Re: Strange behaviour in deleting from Gmail

[Barry Landy]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:


:>On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

:>> > The alphabet soup commands need to be replaced entirely.

:>> It is here that I must categorically disagree with your assessment of

:>> what needs to be changed. While it might be nice to let me customize

:>> which "alphabet soup" character does what command, taking them away would

:>> force me to use the mouse as a primary input device.

:>

:>You misunderstand.  There are other choices between alphabet soup and mouse.

:>

:>Once upon a time, people understood how to do command interfaces that were

:>neither alphabet soup ("; is the command to search") nor cryptic ("cat is the

:>command to view the contents of a file, grep is the command to search through

:>files,...").


glad you are saying that, as I suspect I am one of the few 
individuals...! I remember criticising Unix long and loud for 
being totally unnecessary cryptic (as a relic of the need to preserve 
scarce disc space and band width).




:>

:>That knowledge has largely been lost, except in the minds of a few individuals

:>over the age of 50.  But, other lost knowledge is being rediscovered by the

:>millenial kids (Gen-X is largely a lost cause).  I suspect this too will be

:>rediscovered in the fullness of time.


all pendula swing..!


:>

:>> > The modalities need to be replaced with windows and panels.

:>> The very fact that it doesn't clutter my desktop with multiple open

:>> windows is one of the things I like about alpine.

:>

:>Except when you need something from more than one message at a time.  Or you

:>want to view a newly received message without having to postpone the message

:>that you are composing first.

:>

:>-- Mark --

:>

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