Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Aug 1997 18:34:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 28272 invoked from network); 6 Aug 1997 20:48:00 -0000 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (root@194.217.216.25) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 6 Aug 1997 20:48:00 -0000 Received: by chiark.greenend.org.uk id m0wwCjX-0004ovC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.37); Wed, 6 Aug 97 21:31 BST Received: from ian by davenant.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wwBkR-000257-00 (Debian); Wed, 6 Aug 1997 20:27:55 +0100 From: Ian Jackson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: cfdisk quit without saving is too easy X-Mailer: VM 6.28 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 20:27:55 +0100 Package: cfdisk Version: as shipped on the rescue disk 28/05/1997 The cfdisk program deliberately makes it hard to save your changes, which is OK, but it makes it hard to find out how to do it and easy to lose your edits. In particular, the fact that you have to say shift-W to write rather than just W isn't obvious from the user interface, and plain Q does an unprompted quit-without-save. IMO most users, esp. new ones, will expect quit to prompt them about saving. Ian.