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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:57:08 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly suggestions
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> Anyone want to beat me to the implementation of the following, or
> point out why they should not be implemented?
>
> 1.  Use "#" rather than "_" in the renaming of files by "replica" so
> that one can clean up without regard for legitimate files starting in
> an underscore.

_ is what mk safeinstall uses too.  it's the right thing.
if you have legitimate files starting with an underscore
you should rename them.

i hadn't noticed the double-meaning of _ in /rc/bin/service.
i've renamed those to !.

> 2.  Change Mail so that (a) the vertical bar is followed immediately
> by the "fmt" command, saving a little tag line real estate (yes, it
> does work) in the "mail" windows and (b) the "Undo" command is a
> little more common in "Mail" taglines than is presently the case.

Done.

> 3.  (I won't get to this in any hurry) Teach ACME Mail (a) to use
> templates for new messages and (b) to "group" quote.

I don't really like (a) but it would be trivial to do.
What does (b) mean?

Russ