Bill Burdick <bill.burd...@gmail.com> writes:

> Anywhere you use a link or button, you can probably use an emacs
> command instead. I think maybe the value of links and buttons is that
> they're explicit. It's a reminder in the text and you don't have to
> learn it.
>
> One thing I noticed in my little "recalc" exercise is that Hyperbole
> really really wants the cursor to stay on the button. I used function
> advice to make the cursor stay where it was when you clicked the
> button. This allows "menubars" to work, lists of buttons that can
> operate on the text without warping the cursor to the buttons. This is
> how Oberon and WIly work and I think Hyperbole (for my use cases
> anyway) will benefit from this usage style.

Could you provide an example of that function advice?
-- 
David Masterson

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