> Alright, but I'm not sure I get it. Can you give an example? > I imagine Acme can boast a single, absolute UI policy > only because it's a more general tool; sam(term) is just > an editor, and so is always being used inside another > UI setting---even if it's rio.
Rio and sam are different window managers. If you've used both I fail to understand how you wouldn't notice -- automatically expanding windows, the menu for switching windows, etc. They're different. I also know people who run sam under "standard" window managers like those that come with Gnome. I'm sure they don't want their sam windows to behave like the rest of gnome. Like Erik posted, do you really want to turn 200 text editor windows over to Gnome and expect it to do something sensible? > Granted. *Old* Athena/XTerm, then: set dot with button > one click, scroll, extend dot with button three click. I thought this behavior (which, I believe, originated with PARC's 3-button mouse and was the reason that the Mac went for the simpler 1-button mouse) had been long acknowledged as a mistake. On the other hand if you can make scrolling selection work like in rio, that's the right thing to do. For what you want, though, you can use the k command to set a mark and then move the cursor and run ',. (or .,') to select the region. Russ
