Subject: Interface gaff

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:36:24 -0700

I just noticed (the hard way) that if you accidentally hold down the "y" 
key in various places in the pine program you can end up with many, many
copies of a particular e-mail message being dumped to the printer. Having
the same key used to trigger printing as to answer yes to the ensuing
"Print to ...?" check seems to defeat the purpose of having a check in the
first place. If there is a user interface redesign, may I suggest that you
consider reserving the "y" key for answering yes to the various "Are you
sure?"  questions, and find some other key for printing? 

				Ian Ollmann

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:23:36 -0700 (PDT)

Ian,
In retrospect, it's clear that using "y" for printing (or anything other
than "yes") was a mistake.  (I remember the fateful day well... it 
"seemed like a good idea at the time".) 

Alas, with so many millions of Pine users now, it is *very* difficult to 
change key-bindings any more.  All I can say is that I'm a lot unhappier
about "y" than you are :(

-teg