On Friday, June 29, 2001, 4:35:17 PM, you wrote:
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MAC>> Why is it that clicking past the end of a line in the window of a new
MAC>> message (whether reply or initial) causes the cursor to be positioned
MAC>> at that point and spaces to be inserted on that line instead of
MAC>> putting the cursor at the real EOL. On a related note, using the
MAC>> arrow keys inserts spaces to allow the cursor to be placed at the
MAC>> point the arrow direction is sending it, instead of just stopping at
MAC>> the end of the line/message.
DH> TB! uses paradigms that are NOT those of Bill Gates.
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Hmmm, maybe, but if so I'd have to add that the pardigms used by TB!
in this case are also not those of Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds, as
the EOL/EOF cursor positioning I descrbied is also "standard" for
Macintosh and all the GUI enhancements for Linus, and any other Unix
I've seen, for that matter. TB!'s approach is not totally unique, but
_extremely_ unusual, from what I've seen. And very awkward, to me, at
least.
DH> Remember that alt+L removes extra spaces w/in the line and that TB!
DH> has stream, line and column modes. The differences provide functions
DH> that Windoze customary functions don't. Once I learned what to
DH> expect I have no problem. The one function I WOULD like to see
DH> implemented is the crtl+up or down arrow for jumping between
DH> paragraphs, but even that is easy enough as long as I'm going UP
DH> (not down) - just use cntrl+L or J and it will put you at the top
DH> of the paragraph.
DH> A different mindset is involved. (And remember that TB! is a
DH> contribution from Moldovia).
I appreciate the tips on TB!'s extra features. I'll work with it a
while longer before I gripe about it again. Still, the
Stream/Column/Line editing features don't require the weird EOL/EOF
behavior - check out the excellent text editor UltraEdit for an
example.
Thanks,
Mark Chalkley
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