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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 11 May 97 13:34:51 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00356.html">Pine.LNX.3.91.970510173041.32099P-100000#chimera,massey.ac.nz</A>>, on
05/09/97
at 10:47 PM, Oliver Jowett <oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz> said:
>On Fri, 9 May 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
>> Yup, thus I currently have the <ENTER> abort any incompleat commands,
>> with a clear visual signal on the screen that there is an incompleat
>> command.
>You might want to avoid using enter for this. I use enter as a
>'redraw my current state' no-op, for when my connection starts
>lagging or if the terminal emulation goes ape - I don't know if
>others also do this, but having (no real input) actually change the
>state of your connection seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.
Yeah, I chose <ENTER> here for the simple reason that its the command
key (as distinguished from a normal alphanumeric key) mostly easily
located and hit by a user in haste. I feel that the fact that it
changes state to be an acceptable side-effect as all that is needed to
ressurect the state is to re-issue the last command.
An easy comparison here are things like VMS'es cascaded help system
(some of you may be familiar with it). It goes something like this:
> help
...list of all the top-level topics the system has help
on dislayed...
help> topic
...help on topic displayed...
help>topic> -c // -c is a command line switch to topic_name
... help on command line switch displayed...
help>topic>-c> xxx
...help on xxx capability of -c switch displayed...
help>topic>-c>xxc>
Then hitting <ENTER> on a blank entry just exits out to the next layer
help>topic>-c>xxc> <ENTER>
help>topic>-c> <ENTER>
help>topic> <ETNER>
help> <ENTER>
>
With of course the full abaility to start going down the tree again
from any level.
>Systems
>that close connection if you hit enter at the login screen bug me for
>this reason.
Agreed.
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Magnetic Scrolls' magical parser</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00290" HREF="msg00290.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Magnetic Scrolls' magical parser</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00329" HREF="msg00329.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 07 May 1997, 21:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00346" HREF="msg00346.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 00:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00356" HREF="msg00356.html">(fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
Oliver Jowett <a href="mailto:oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz">oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 12:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00415" HREF="msg00415.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 13 May 1997, 04:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00568" HREF="msg00568.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
Raz <a href="mailto:muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk">muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 02:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00577" HREF="msg00577.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 08:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00642" HREF="msg00642.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 07:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00653" HREF="msg00653.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 14:20 GMT
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