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- Subject: Vuepad bug/feature. Was: Wanted: simple editor
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.200445.13978@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:04:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.165327.27142@cs.ruu.nl> <Bxx54r.9sw@fc.hp.com>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- hugh@ (Hugh Mahon) writes:
-
- >If you have HP-UX version 8.07 or later, try 'vuepad', an X-Windows based
- >simple to use editor.
-
- Is this a bug or a feature?
- When I scroll through a doc in vuepad using PgDn (on the Vectra PC
- keyboard) then go for finer control using the down arrow key I find that
- I jump back to the top of the doc where the I bar and the ^ are still
- sitting.
- Other simple editors I have used (e.g. OS/2 e.exe) keeps the i
- bar/cursor insertion point in sync with PgDn/PgUp movements.
- The HP way requires I move from the keyboard to the mouse and click it
- somewhere on the page I have scrolled to. This is very clumsy for an
- editor which is necessarily a keyboard focussed app.
-
- In a similar vein - if I mark a block of test to move it using the
- keyboard (Shift-down arrow then Shift-Del) I must then move the
- ^cursor with the mouse to mark the destination point. Moving the i-bar
- with the keyboard is no good because the i-bar and ^ cursor do not stay
- in sync.
-
- Is this lack of co-ordination between keyboard and mouse a bug or a
- feature?
- If it is a feature what on earth is the use of it?
-
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-
- Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
- University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz
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