Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:17:27 +0100 | From | Malcolm Beattie <> | Subject | Re: CML2 0.7.1 is available |
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Eric S. Raymond writes: > Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@intel.com>: > > I didn't say that 'q' wrote out anything. I was asking that 'q' and > > 'x' operate similar to vi, but now they operate exactly opposite from > > vi. > > In cmlconfigure, 'x' means exit and don't save. In vi, 'x' means > > save & exit (or is a synonym for :wq ). > > In cmlconfigure, 'q' means save & exit. In vi, 'q' means abort/quit > > *right now*. > > OK, point made. I'll reverse these in 0.7.4.
Except that other curses based programs such as the MUAs elm and mutt use the exact opposite: q for exit with confirmation/saving/etc and x for immediate no-questions-asked exit. Ho hum.
--Malcolm
-- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services
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