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Re: lynx-dev dev21: What broke "quit on anything other than y"?
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev dev21: What broke "quit on anything other than y"? |
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Wed, 31 Mar 1999 06:52:12 -0800 |
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:05:12PM -0800, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> <snip>
> 2. The liberal setting: accept "n" [or the local equivalent] to mean
> "my mistake, do not quit"; anything else as "go ahead, quit".
> <snip>
Change the name from "LIBERAL setting" to "DANGEROUS setting".
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Actually, I think REQUIRING an explicit y or n is needed.
Better, considering what you lose when you quit lynx, require
an explicit "y-e-s".
---- SOME REASONS:
(1) How often do you mistakenly type "q"?
Well, as a new user of MUTT, I now find myself hitting "q"
far more often than before (and by mistake, always!),
because in mutt you type q just to "return" from a
mode or level or whatever it might be called.
(2) With lynx, I have learned to NEVER type "q"; I don't know
what it's doing, but it seems to take FOREVER to exit.
On my isp, I just "exit" twice, leaving it hanging, letting
the os kill it. Sure is faster!
(at home, I just ^c the thing)
(3) Consider what you LOSE with a "q" -- you have built up
all this history-page, the V page, with this big record
of where you've been. And no restart-info saved into a file.
So, when I am using lynx and want to run trn or read mail
or whatever, I just ^Z the lynx and run the other thing,
which indeed might be ^Z'd itself.
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I'd care a lot less about this "q" business if lynx made
a restart-here-file, so I could resume exactly where I did the "q".
But until that, make it DIFFICULT to say "q". I mean, how
often do you say it? Don't most people just keep it "up"?
David