[161] in bug-owl
Re: Hitting ">" twice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken T Takusagawa)
Mon Apr 7 19:46:02 2003
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 19:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU>
To: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bug-owl@MIT.EDU>
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OK, I'm fine with it. It "looks" like a bug, so I reported
it.
--ken
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, James M. Kretchmar wrote:
> > Hitting ">" twice lets me go one past the last message with
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> In this case that's actually an intentional feature, ">>" is supposed
> to clear the screen and only print messages that coming following it
> (so that you can say "ok, I've read everything, I want my screen blank
> until something new comes in").
>
> We choose to implement that as a one-past-the-last-message, though
> that could conceivably change in the future.
>
> Does this behavior bug you? Perhaps we could add a variable to turn
> it off.
>
> kretch
>
