At 11:54 -0700 2006/05/31, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
...
this is why intead of Ctrl+W, I use Ctrl+S Ctrl+W
...
- Open find: Ctrl+F
- Type word
- Press enter to find
Issue: default button is "Find from Top",
I believe it should be "Find Next"
Found word. Now want to find next word.
Issue: expect to press the same key
(in many viewers it's F3 for initial find
and all the Next, and Shift+F3 or F7 is find new)
or an "adjesent" key, like Ctrl+G.
Instead need to use mouse (horrible) or press
Ctrl+F just to return to the dialog box.
Now want to dismiss the dialog.
Press Escape -- instead the script
window closes -- this is a major setback.
So need to press Ctrl+F Escape, or
use mouse.
BTW, autoclosing scripts on Escape is an annoyance
rather than convenience.
Issues like these are on top of the fact that j is the
only Mac application (that I use) which uses <cntrl> at
all for these things. The command (Apple/Splat) key is
used instead of control. Modifiers for 3+key chords use
either the option/alt key or sometimes the Shift and/or
control. As someone pointed out, I suppose I can look
into hacking these things to replace cntrl with splat...
As I write this, I tried an experiment. I tried to copy
some examples from an email authored by Roger. Because of
the control/command issues, I had to use command+c to
copy 4 lines, then control+v to paste them (or use the
dreaded mouse) - but then my real complaints begin. If I
do that in a Darwin terminal/jconsole session:
1. command+c command+v is consistent between the
two applications (this isn't a complaint)
2. the 4 lines are copied into the input line of
the session and are executed sequentially.
In the jIDE after stumbling through step 1, I have to
mess around bringing things into an input area one at
a time. At every turn I find things like this that annoy...
Even pasting one line, I have to make sure not to bring
the EOL with it, or I have to copy it down to execute it.
This is quite different from any other application I use.
(Including j in a terminal/jconsole session).
I take it that Linux GUI users find these less troublesome
than Mac users. But they are deal killers for me, except
as I said before, running labs, demos, etc.
- joey
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