oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP (04/07/87)
Here are a few things I'd like. Please tell me how to get them if they've already been done. 1.) a BIG cut buffer. The macintosh can cut and paste a chunk of text at least 32k long. The X system I am running on my Sun 3/50s seems to truncate the cut buffer at about 512 characters: much too short for a paragraph of text or a single lisp function. 2.) A version of csh that will show me the directory structure as a tree, with my current working directory marked on the picture of the tree, so I can cd by pointing with the mouse at the new position I want to be. (with the non-directory files, at each point, drawn in a grayed-out font, so I can shift click to copy a file name into the cut buffer.) 3.) a similar smart interface to readnews (rn) and to mail. Let's get out of this multiple-pseudo-vt100-xterm-window dark ages. --- David Phillip Oster -- "We live in a Global Village." Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- "You are Number Six."
jimc@iscuva.UUCP (04/13/87)
>3.) a similar smart interface to readnews (rn) and to mail. Let's get out >of this multiple-pseudo-vt100-xterm-window dark ages. Hear hear! I couldn't agree more. The reason I bought a Macintosh, and continue to recommend it to any who ask (in spite of its faults), is that it represents a truly forward step in ease-of-use. Wouldn't it be nice if our $15,000 computers could be as nice to use as our $1,500 ones? Flames about Mac-lovers should be directed to /dev/null/asbestos/lined +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC Systems Corp. ! II CC ! Spokane, WA ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: ihnp4!tektronix!reed!iscuva!jimc ! II CCCCCC ! (509)927-5757 +----------------+ "Break free from the tyranny of ESC[long;meaningless;stone;age;narrow;funnel;sequence."
martin@minster.UUCP (04/30/87)
In article <505@iscuva.UUCP> jimc@iscuva.UUCP (Jim Cathey) writes: >>3.) a similar smart interface to readnews (rn) and to mail. Let's get out >>of this multiple-pseudo-vt100-xterm-window dark ages. > >Hear hear! I couldn't agree more. The reason I bought a Macintosh, and >continue to recommend it to any who ask (in spite of its faults), is that The programs in the LucasFilm graphics environment are some of the best graphical programs (at least for MY type of use!) I've seen - Certainly better than the baroque stuff Sun distributes. Now that the author is at MIT, one might hope that these programs may be ported to X. Martin
aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.UK (Aled Morris) (01/30/88)
Does anyone have xdvi for X11? I would appreciate any information.
I'm stuck if you say "anonymous ftp" since I can't, but I'm on
speaking terms with xstuff...
Also, has anyone thought about porting Common Windows onto CLX?
CW would be a good substitute for a lisp-based toolkit, and if
it were freely available, so much the better. If no-one else
has done it, someone here at UoS might be tempted.
Thanks in advance,
Aled Morris
systems programmer
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