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Date:Mon Oct 22 21:20:04 1996 
Subject:quitting files in Xved 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:961022.03 

I've never used Xved much because so much of its behaviour irritates
me intensely -- e.g. you can't have fewer windows than open files,
so that having lots of open files causes an awful lot of messing
around with the mouse; and you can't as in ordinary Ved use the mouse to
select error messages on the status line to include in an email query,
nor use the output on the status line of an Pop-11 calculation, like

	ENTER :sqrt(9999)

But what bugs me most of all is that when I give a keyboard command
(e.g. ESC q) to quit a file that has been altered and is writeable then
I am FORCED to use the mouse to answer the question whether to save the
file or not, instead of being able simply to type the usual "y" or "n"
or "c" to continue. This seems to be completely daft. (I can see the
point of forcing a mouse-based response when the quit was invoked by the
mouse, but not when it was invoked from the keyboard.)

Am I the only person who objects to this, or is it worth a bug report?

Surely there must be a way to disable, this, but searching for "quit"
and "save" in REF XVED, TEACH XVED and HELP XVED revealed nothing.

Is there a complete list of XVED resources that can be set in .Xdefaults
somewhere? Maybe it's one of those???

Aaron