chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) (12/05/85)
I've been meaning to post this for awhile, but I ran into a new possible bug
last night that I wanted to see if I should worry about. I've now found a
finder bug and two MacWrite bugs (all but the newest one trivial) that I
haven't seen mentioned here yet.
Finder Bug (Finder version 4.1, not hacked) [priority: none]
Put a data file on a disk in such a way that it has a default (blank
paper) icon. If you then copy an application onto that floppy that has an
icon defined for the files, when the operation is finished the default
icons will be overwritten by the new icons, but they will be garbaged out
because the finder doesn't erase the old icon first. Anything that causes
the window to be redrawn (closing it and re-opening it, for instance)
fixes it -- the finder simply forgot what was on the screen.
MacWrite Bug 1 (MacWrite Version 4.5, not hacked) [priority: irritating]
When you're typing in MacWrite and you cause the program to scroll the
window and page in text from the disk, MacWrite has a tendency to drop
the upkey event on the floor and pretend that you're holding a key down.
This means that you can type "argh" and get "aaaarrrrggghhhh". It is easy
to do if you type about 110wpm, and can be halted by typing a key after
the disk stops spinning. You then have to stop and edit out the spurious
characters.
MacWrite Bug? 2 (MacWrite Version 4.5, not hacked) [priority: devastating]
I haven't reproduced this yet, and I am not at all sure I want to. I had
about four pages of text (Boston font, a few centered headers, nothing
fancy). My cursor was on the bottom line of the screen, which was the
first line of page 4 (of 4). I clicked the scroll bar to scroll the window
up and the machine rebooted. Whoosh, scratch an hours work (yes, I hadn't
saved in an hour, but then I'd never lost ANYTHING to Macwrite before now,
either...) Has anyone else seen anything similar? Is this a one-shot
fluke? Besides saving my work on a regular basis, how do I avoid losing
data if Macwrite crashes. Is there someway to get Macwrite to read its
internal data files and recover?
MacWrite Argh #1 (All macWrites)
Why doesn't someone hack in a keyboard delete-word into macwrite. When I'm
really cooking I don't want to take the time to grab the mouse and double
click and backspacing halfway up a line of text is a pain. If I could do
it in three or four keystrokes (I mean, even VI has it with ^W) I'd be a
lot happier. Does Word have this feature?
chuq
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