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Date:Mon Mar 17 19:53:31 1993 
Subject:Re: VEDFILESELECT waits too long for my taste 
From:Ian Rogers 
Volume-ID:930318.02 

lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin) writes:
> Does anyone have a version of VEDFILESELECT that doesn't wait a while
> before poping up a file index?

Did you know that you don't have to wait for the menu? Dead useful
if you have 5 squintillion files in the buffer list and you know
that the one you want is third in the stack - a quick <esc> e 3 and
Bob's your uncle.

> Or should I suggest to the poplog
> programmers that VEDFILESELECT should use a parameter determining this
> interval?

There's two main school's of thought in User Interface design.

    1. make everything a user variable parameter (the X method)
    2. only allow one way of doing things but make sure it's right (the Mac
       method)

and the halfway house:

    1.5 everything's a user variable parameter, but get the defaults
        right so that no-one needs to care. Ever looked at
        REF * VEDVARS :-)

Ian.