From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 10:50:34 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <409B9F5F.7050002@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>
>
>>You have completely missed the point. How precisely does vi, when opening
>>a new document which is to become a proto-article followup, "prepare a
>>'default' subject"? Moreover, you are presuming universal availability and
>>applicability of certain UI characteristics which are not universally
>>available; e.g. "click" makes no sense for a character-based UI.
>
>
> Which bit of 'It could even provide a "click"' do you not understand?
The part where vi is supposed to "provide a 'click'". Either you're being
unclear or you have no idea what vi is.
> The only point is that if the user can't or won't provide a subject, then
> the system provides a default (with of without a "Re:").
In the case of vi, "the system" has no way to provide a default.
> If the user is
> using vi, or some home-grown script, then it is his responsibility to see
> that some acceptable subject is provided.
Are you claiming that if a user is_ not_ using vi, then it is *not* his
responsibility to ensure that an appropriate (unclear what you mean
by "acceptable") subject is provided?
If you mean to say that the user is unconditionally responsible for
ensuring that an appropriate subject is provided, then simply say so
and move on. UI design issues are outside of scope.
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