lra@aluxe.UUCP (Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell Labs) (03/26/84)
I ran across a little Mac trick and am sharing it with the net. I was performing a series of long calculations, the kind where a programmable calculator is nice. The Mac works great as follows. Open the note pad to a clean page on one half of the screen, and open the calculator on the other half. Type in the normal keystrokes you would enter on the calculator into the note pad. Don't enter a RETURN unless you want the calculator to beep at you. When finished entering your equation into the note pad, highlite it with the mouse and copy it into the clipboard (COMMAND-c). Move over to the calculator and paste the clipboard into the calculator (COMMAND-v). Watch the keys go, and walla the answer. Ahh, now you want to change your equation a little, simply edit the note pad, copy it into the clipboard, then paste it into the calculator. Thats it!! MacNificent Mac Lonnie R. Abelbeck AT&T Bell Laboratories ..!aluxe!lra
guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (04/05/84)
Seems the Mac newsgroup is finally getting off the air, albeit under the disguise of net.micro.apple as yet. The described trick (editing the equation in the notepad, then copying it to the calculator using cut/paste) seems easy enough, even for me (who has never seen a Mac). One question remains: why can't the input to the calculator be edited directly? Wouldn't this be even easier and much more straightforward? Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam guido@mcvax