11 Aug
1998
11 Aug
'98
9:03 p.m.
Sorry for the empty message back a bit. I understand some people were
annoyed. Let me explain for those who don't use Pine as a mail reader.
The cancel command ctrl-c and cancel ctrl-x are easy to mix up. Its about
as annoying as when using Telix and wanting to shell out (alt-j) and
accidentally hang up (alt-h). Yes, you are prompted to make sure you want to
send after ctrl-x but if your not expecting it, simply expecting to
cancel, hitting the return is done before the prompt is even seen. Also,
being a reasonably fast typist leads to mistakes of overconfidence in what
has been typed. Remappimg the keyboard would be the obvious answer but
after once doing so I caused new problems, so I don't bother.
I promise it will never happen again.
Colan