On Wed, Oct 9, 2002, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > Then why not put it in the Help line for newbies?
>
> For the same reason that it shouldn't be put in the help menu. The help
> line is just a short form of the help menu.
Yeah, but unlike the help menus, the $help line is present with all
prompts i
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:59:27PM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2002, rex wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> > > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only
> > > works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu
On Tue, Oct 8, 2002, rex wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only
> > works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu available when using
> > the line-editor. It would be misleading to
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:06:54PM -0400, Rob Reid wrote:
>
> It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a
> hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top.
Ah, yes. Bells and chords. That's self-consistent for the editor.
Finding ^C neither in the ? help, no
At 9:10 PM EDT on October 8 Michael Elkins sent off:
> Rob Reid wrote:
> > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a
> > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top.
>
> Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only
> works inside of
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> Rob Reid wrote:
> > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a
> > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top.
>
> Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only
> works i
Rob Reid wrote:
> It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a
> hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top.
Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only
works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu available when using
the line-e
At 8:57 PM EDT on October 8 Erik Christiansen sent off:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:47:53PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> >
> > Control-G cancels most prompted operations.
>
>With your pardon, I'll say that _doesn't_ ring a bell.
>
>Having tried the conventional escapes, including ^
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:47:53PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
>
> Control-G cancels most prompted operations.
With your pardon, I'll say that _doesn't_ ring a bell.
Having tried the conventional escapes, including ^C, ^D, and Esc, I'd
surmised that mutt lacked the facility.
Is th
* Richard Cattien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-08-02 15:59]:
>
> this may be offtopic, but how do you deal with mails which have no CR
> after 7x letters, and you want to break it correctly? I know this is an
> editor issue ...maybe someone knows if theres a trick in vim to do smth
> like that?
set w
* On 2002.10.08, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Richard Cattien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Control-G cancels most prompted operations.
More precisely, ^G probably cancels all prompted operations. I just
didn't want to make an assertion I hadn't proven. :)
> Well, why the heck this is
Hi,
* Richard Cattien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 22:56]:
>> Control-G cancels most prompted operations.
>
>Well, why the heck this is not mentioned in the online help when
>pressing ``?'' I was looking for this too but was afraid of asking :-)
My guess is that the online help is automatically
> >unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
> >message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not.
> >Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation
> >altogether, but instead have to carefully _not_ discard the message,
> >then
Hi,
> Control-G cancels most prompted operations.
Well, why the heck this is not mentioned in the online help when
pressing ``?'' I was looking for this too but was afraid of asking :-)
this may be offtopic, but how do you deal with mails which have no CR
after 7x letters, and you want to break
Hi,
* Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 21:35]:
>Apologies for subscribing just to ask a question, and maybe for the
>unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
>message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not.
>Usually I want to select a th
* On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Ken Irving wrote:
> Apologies for subscribing just to ask a question, and maybe for the
> unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
> message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not.
> Usually I want to select a third option
Ken Irving wrote:
> unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
> message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not.
> Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation
Type control-G at that prompt, and Mutt will cancel the exit of t
* On 2002.10.08, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Ken Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Apologies for subscribing just to ask a question, and maybe for the
> unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
> message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message
Apologies for subscribing just to ask a question, and maybe for the
unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a
message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not.
Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation
altogether, but inste
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