bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) (03/29/88)
. . . You can even do this one better. I have a key defined to do a
restangular echo and then redefine the paste key to do a rectangular paste.
That way, the rectangular area is cut or copied rectangularly and then
pasted back in the way you expect.
Of course, this causes strange effects the next time you paste if you were
using the rectangular echo to delimit a case change or `s' command or something,
but it works most of the time, and with the DM's lovely undo, who cares if it
completely screws up from time to time?
Also, I've gots of interesting key definitions to do things like always show
the current cursor position (except while in the DM window), maintain current
nesting level, set a debugger breakpoint on the line I'm pointing to, use the
the third mouse button for "shift" to allow four functions on three buttons,
find word, delete word, &c.
We've also got a f6x10, which is about the size of the default DN300 fonts,
on a DN3000. A lot of us found the default too small to read and the next
bigger one too big to fit useful text. With f6x10, you can fit an 80-column
window and a 72-column window side-by-side.
(I've been working on an Apollo for four years now; after a while one does
these things.)
Anyway, if any of these sound interesting, let me know (by E-mail, please).
If gobs of people are interested, I'll post. Else, I'll mail. Or whatever.
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--Brian.
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