yeah, I always think it's funny how people consider control+x and control+v to be intuitive, but control+w and control+y to be unintuitive, especially since many of those Unix editors were around long before you had any editors in DOS or Windows. Don't confuse familiarity with intuitiveness! :-) I personally always hate going back to a DOS/Windows style editor after doing a lot of cutting and pasting in Emacs!
On 26/10/12 09:51, Scott Howell wrote: > Rob, > > Don't be knocking' those good old Unix/Linux editors. :) There are a number > of apps that might do what you want, but not sure what you want. :) Are you > just looking to take notes or actually put together some documents? You have > such an array of options I think it might help to know what options you are > looking for. You have options such as Elements, which is an editor that uses > DropBox. I am sure some will have a number of suggestions. You might also > look at http://www.applevis.com and sort through the app directory. > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Rob Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So you're probably right about the amount of text, so we want a real text >> editor so we can do this. Some of us do really write stuff! Pages is a word >> processor for tarting it up afterwards, or as you go even; but for >> scribblers, edit, or some of those old DOS editors like Boxer and so on, >> would be ideal for this. >> Let's not go down the Unix/Linux VI, ELVIS and all those, good when you get >> used to them, but all those commands so counter-intuative. >> >> RobH, looking for suggestions or even recommendations. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 10:30 AM >> Subject: Re: Notes question >> >> >> I suspect it is not VO. If that were the case it seems the problem would >> affect other apps such as iBooks etc. There is always a possibility that 10 >> pages of notes may be pushing some limit. Seems there is more investigation >> required. Of course I'm not sure the Notes app was ever intended to handle >> that much text. :) >> >> On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:58 AM, Rob Harris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think we don't know enough about how VO works and how big it's text >>> buffer >>> is from which it does it's TTS. >>> >>> It could be a design flaw we're only just coming to terms with. I asked >>> a >>> question like this about large text files and getting to read them. >>> >>> R! >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Fred Olver" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:38 PM >>> Subject: Re: Notes question >>> >>> >>> I don't know how to resolve the problem, but it sounds like the memory is >>> getting used up while in the app. >>> >>> Fred Olver >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Denny Schwab" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:45 PM >>> Subject: Notes question >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> After upgrading to 6.0 I have been having an issue when writing in the >>>> Notes Application. Usually starting around page 10 or so, I get an >>>> issue that Voice Over is still saying the characters I have typed, >>>> catching up to where I had finished. When I get to page twenty or so >>>> this problem gets worse, where it takes Voice Over quite a bit longer >>>> to catch up to where I stopped typing. >>>> >>>> Has anyone else seen this issue? 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