Subject: ignore (stupid) NOPs?

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:54:10 -0800 (PST)

If you're already at the index screen, and hit 'i', you get:
           [Command "i" not defined for this screen. Use ? for help]

Now, I realize, it's silly, why hit I if you're already at the index screen..
But I seem to do it a lot..  (I guess it's kind of like people who make
exaggerations similar to "if you don't know what you're doing in vi, hit
escape a bunch of times".)

Seems to me that non-destructive NOPs (yes that's redundant) shouldn't really
generate error/warning messages.

No, obviously I don't expect 'i' to be at the menu when you're already
in the index, just silently ignore it.

(This is with 4.40 btw.)

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From: "Nick Birkett (x8289)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:09:31 -0500 (EST)

Actually, strange as it may be, I find this action helpful.  I access pine
a lot through the Internet.  Sometimes, I'm not sure if my connection has
frozen.  So, I simply hit an 'i' when I'm in the index.  The [Command
"i"...] error message reassures me that things are fine.  I'm sure this
isn't what the designers had in mind, but  :-)

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:54:10 -0800 (PST)
> From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: ignore (stupid) NOPs?
> 
> 

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From: Praveen Kumar <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:29:41 +0530 (IST)

Nick, this is called clever use of stupid things :-)

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