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Hi Mark,
On 30 June 2001 at 01:05:38 -0400 (which was 06:05 where I live)
Mark A. Chalkley wrote to Douglas Hinds and made these points:
DH>> TB! uses paradigms that are NOT those of Bill Gates.
MAC> <snip>
MAC> Hmmm, maybe, but if so I'd have to add that the pardigms used by
MAC> TB! in this case are also not those of Steve Jobs or Linus
MAC> Torvalds, as the EOL/EOF cursor positioning I descrbied is also
MAC> "standard" for Macintosh and all the GUI enhancements for Linus,
MAC> and any other Unix I've seen, for that matter. TB!'s approach is
MAC> not totally unique, but _extremely_ unusual, from what I've seen.
MAC> And very awkward, to me, at least.
Let's try to get this a bit more logical.
TB uses the paradigm originally introduced by WordStar - a very early
word processor - and carried forward into Borland's "SideKick" product
and the source code editors for all Borland IDEs (and many other
besides). It is known as a "free" or "floating" caret interface and is
widely used, but not usually employed in bare text editors or word
processors.
Its primary purpose is to support point, click and type usage. There's
no other way to do that. Yes, it could be made optional for those
experiencing culture shock but, once you know its there and have got a
little used to it *boy* would you miss it if it were removed!
DH>> Remember that alt+L removes extra spaces w/in the line
Also, merely moving the cursor out of one line to the next is enough
to have TB remove excess trailing spaces.
MAC> I appreciate the tips on TB!'s extra features. I'll work with it
MAC> a while longer before I gripe about it again.
A worthwhile exercise IMHO. Okay, it was easier for me since all of my
favourite editors used (and still use) the free-caret interface <g>.
MAC> Still, the Stream/Column/Line editing features don't require the
MAC> weird EOL/EOF behavior -
True. But "Column paste" does :-).
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user
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