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LYNX-DEV: require actual YES for "Q" cmd.


From: David Combs
Subject: LYNX-DEV: require actual YES for "Q" cmd.
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:05:12 -0800 (PST)

The Q cmd should require a full "y e s" spelled
out.  

Why?

Too darned easy to type in the wrong thing.

For instance, I use regular unix "mail" command
to read my mail, and I have it using "less" as
PAGER -- and "less" requires an explicit "q"
to exit it back to mail.

So one gets in the habit of typing, all at once,
"qdp" (quit less, then in mail delete the
current msg, and Print the next one).

After 20 minutes of doing that, you run lynx,
to go read nando news or something.

Instead of typing H to go back, you hit qdp --
oops, you are OUT, lynx is gone.

Requiring (as does emacs) a full "y e s" for
commands that are "dangerous", instead of just
a kneejerk "y", makes life a little safer.

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