Jacques,

> > > That behaviour should not exist, as it makes the process more
> > > difficult to comprehend and (worse) more difficult to monitor with
> > > external (automated) scripting tools.

> The html mode was never intended to be automated.

But the 'feature' also exists in the text-mode version. And that one can
very well be automated (i.e. any terminal emulator that can be scripted).

> This is done especially for the html mode. For the GUI mode and ncurses
> mode, we could very well have something completly different such as an
> incremental search field (the list scroll as you type).

But that wouldn't that contradict the current aim: having a text-mode,
gui-mode and html-mode that are as close to each other as possible?

> For the GUI, when doing remote GUI, sending the whole list is a problem.
> Anyway, I will turn this into a configurable feature.

Thanks.

Jeroen Pluimers
http://www.pluimers.com



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