Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!h.cc.purdue.edu!s.cc.purdue.edu!rsk From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Elm gripes II Summary: Another redraw-reducing suggestion. Message-ID: <3273@s.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 27 Jun 88 11:01:36 GMT References: <6093@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Rich Kulawiec) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Unix Systems Staff Lines: 14 I largely concur with the sentiments expressed in the previous article, but I'd like to go a step further. At low baud rates, Elm can be annoying to use because of its insistence on redrawing the entire screen every time (1) you start to read a message and (2) you finish reading a message. Solution? Split the screen; use a line of the form "split = 10", let's say, in the .elmrc file to indicate at what the line the break should occur; and above that line, show headers. Below it, show messages. For example, with "split = 10", assuming a 24 line terminal, the first 10 lines would be headers, the 11th would be a delimiter, the 12th through the 23rd would be a message buffer, and the 24th would be for the "(More)" prompt. ---Rsk