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Date:	Tue, 10 May 1994 07:23:05 -0400
From:	steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
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To:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: menu line characters
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
X-Face: Iqsa(US9p?)Y^W+6Ff[Z]<t?\A!eaL'DG{20*#{C1;'Ct&}L}B^/1(aYI@hP)4!<}7D=2gm 
        8!$T`8QNfK<te\20%A\`wm*wa2"^Up*Qs"X}KeV*3XeB2te&sKp*t`N;^BDh[6=K{ZBE=O>rM"uFE) 
        lFDjag1e]\/#2

minor gripe: the menu lines use '+' and '*' to indicate the number of windows
open on a file. wouldn't it make more sense to use characters that don't have
special meanings within a regular expression? that would save on escaping
these characters on the odd occasion they're used in a command. The following
are available (I think): ! # % : ; " < > ~

Although it's a pretty arbitrary decision about which should be used ('-+*'
makes some sense, since each character has more used pixels than the previous
one), '-:;' '-%#' and '-<>' make a small amount of sense to me....

steve