Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> There's a *lot* of history of using the space bar to "do the next thing"
> in Unix console programs (more/less, most news readers and existing mail
> readers). And there's no reason *not* to use them -- what else would you
> bind to the space key? You're right: the defaults should cater to the
> new user, but there's no reason to deliberatly aggravate the experienced
> user.
BTW dselect keybinding for exiting the help screen shouldn't be <space>.
Hopefully Wichert will include my patch for that (and the rest of the help
stuff) in woody (he said he would).
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
[no, there was no purpose to this post other than to say that exiting help
system with <space> sucks ;>]
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