/rev bug? feature request? something...

Chris Hillery (cjh@ebt.com)
Fri, 17 Mar 1995 17:00:13 +0500

My roommate, not the most computer literate soul by any stretch,
starting asking me today why he kept seeing all the stuff from his
previous attachment in his detached review buffer. He then said that
"it should me stuff that happened while i was active, but not in
typical "file" format" ...

Anyway, after digging through the language barrier, I discovered that
he was in fact typing just "/review" instead of "/review detach" ("I
thought it might be a shortcut"), and in fact that was giving him the
ENTIRE review buffer's contents - quite a chunk of info.

Obviously what he was doing was wrong, but this did make me think that
perhaps the default action of /review with no arguments should not be
to dump the entire world on you. I tried it just now and got nearly a
thousand lines of output. Perhaps instead it should give a usage
message, and maybe a keyword "everything" or something could give you
every single last thing if that's what you really wanted.

Just a thought...

-- 
Ceej
aka Chris Hillery
cjh@ebt.com