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RE: [ECS] ECS exe's posted 8/1 Martin Terry Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:10:27 -0700

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Mark, sorry it took a couple of days to respond, but I haven't had a
chance to look at ECS until now. 

Here's the scenerio that's a problem for me:

I'm using ECST. I hit F1 for the group screen.  The "Option:" and "Group
Name:" prompts default to some previous values.  I use the cursor keys
to cursor to "Group Name:".  Previously I could start typing a new group
name at this point, let's say the current group is "Lights" and I want
"Phone".  I could type pho (enough to make this unique) and hit return
and wa-la, I'm at the phone group.

Now when I start to type, I enter p and ECS starts flashing "Error: "p"
is not a legal selection" and as I enter more characters I get
"phoneLights" and you're right, not a legal selection.

To get to phone easily I have to hit control-end, backspace through the
current word "Lights" and then enter phone. Or I can press control-T and
start typing.

This get to be a real pain since every field presented has some default
value that must be deleted.

I wouldn't mind the control-T option, but as soon as I enter one value,
it reverts back to insert mode. I would be happy if control-T would
toggle insert/overtype UNTIL I set it otherwise.

As far as when the change occured, this is the first upgrade I've done
in several months. I thought the caller-id fixes would be worth it.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Gilmore [SMTP:markgilmore@cococo.net]
> Sent:	Monday, August 03, 1998 2:35 PM
> To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
> Subject:	Re: [ECS] ECS exe's posted 8/1
> 
> Martin, This change has been around for a while now,
> and I think your's is the 1st complaint. Please give
> a specific/detailed example of where this is a pain.
> Anyone else dislike this change ?
> 
> Martin Terry wrote:
> > 
> > I upgraded ECST.EXE to the version Mark posted on 8/1, and since
> then
> > all my keystrokes are in the "insert" mode.
> > control-T gets me to overwrite, but the next screen goes back to
> insert
> > mode.
> > 
> > This makes it quite a pain to select screens, variables, etc.
> > 
> > Is it just me or was this a change somewhere along the way?  Mark?
> 
> -- 
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2

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