screens other than 0-9 (was: Re: Windows 2003/IIS 6 issues...newand improved ones.)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:43:36AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:33:13AM -0400, Jay Ashworth achieved the spontaneous
> generation of the following:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:51:47AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > > I'm forced to wonder why I should have to create a special menu option, or
> > > at the very least enter a special command just to get at something that
> > > should be just as easily accessible at 0-9.
> > 
> > Because they were added on afterwards.  :-)
> 
> By that logic, with 5.6, if you want to access an automatic index past R,
> one of the new ones, you should have to nave a special command line flag
> specifying anything in the range of Q-Z, not be able to just type it in
> whenever an index selection is called for.  And boy, I bet people would
> scream over that.

Yup.  But that's a change in scope, not a change in *form*.

> I look at it this way:  a screen is a screen is a screen.  Anywhere you
> should be able to access a screen, the name of the screen should be wholly
> irrelevant.  It's not like they're even formatted differently.

Well, honestly, we've used them somewhat extensively for screens *we
don't want users selecting manually*

So I can see an upside.

Maybe it's rationalization.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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