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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: A few small changes for 3.1 (Edit and gdb)
- Message-ID: <63080@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 06:28:58 GMT
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- tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh) writes:
- > One addition [to Edit.app for 2.1] that should be both easy to make and
- > quite useful is to follow the example set by the Stuart terminal emulator
- > by adding an "extent" option to the print pannel.
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- Another good idea that Edit and other apps should borrow from Stuart
- is to use alt-up and alt-down to scroll. (alt-left and alt-right to cycle thru windows)
- these are the main reasons I have to stop typing and reach for the mouse,
- a real slow down in a word processing type of app. Please NeXT, I know your
- GUI gods have declared some nonsensical use for alt arrow keys that even Edit's writers
- had the good sense to ignore, but please give us a way to scroll quickly without
- using the mouse. And NO, holding down the arrow key as the cursor covers the whole
- page is not quick.
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