Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!dsinc!syd
From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: small problem with the header editor
Keywords: header elm
Message-ID: <1989Sep24.165810.28074@DSI.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 89 16:58:10 GMT
References: <1841@cjsa.WA.COM>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) writes:
>I was just wondering what the development team's current thoughts
>were about incorporating the header in the editor buffer as an option
>in the next release?
We've thought about it, and have done nothing more.  Its not an easy
option to integrate the way Elm is written.  Without a rewrite of the
sending area it is very difficult, so it has been punted for now.
If we were to do it, we would base it on the users current mode and
only experts would get it, or perhaps those that specifically requested
it via their elmrc files.  Note, that we still cannot do it, at present.

>I would really like to be able to map my keyboard so that I
>could get Elm to operate similar to NN (and other tools I use).  Does this
>capability seem useful enough to others to warrant the effort of adding
>it to Elm?  If so, I have been impressed with the NN implementation of
>key binding and Kim Storm (author of NN) might be receptive to allowing
>this code to be incorporated into Elm.
We have also considered this when we looked at using a 'real curses' for
Elm and punted this also.  We could not find a suitable subset of curses
that worked on multiple machines.  Too many vendors curses broke one
feature or another, so we dropped the entire issue.  Elm's curses is too
dumb for any of this at present, so it would be a complete rewrite of the
input fetching code, which also is not necessarily centralized in Elm.

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