icapon@registry.adelaide.edu.au (Nick Capon) (06/14/91)
This is being posted because the original email bounced; is KAMINS@KUMR.LNS.COM the right address for Scott Kamins? My original message was In response to your query (of some weeks ago) I have two suggestions I typically work with a copy of your Hypertalk book which is heavily annotated, plus a file of printouts of things such as 2.1. release notes, plus my own stack of "notes" from newsgroups etc, plus the hypertalk help stack. It occurs to me that it would be useful if the offical stack was either updated regularly (e.g. an updater say once a month ...) or at least made provision for additions by users. At present most of the data is in locked fields with scripts etc, and the user cannot easily add a note. Maybe Option-more should open up the current topic field, or something. But I'd rather have a regular update posting. Secondly, the topic search tends to give one Hypertalk words, not concepts. If for example I type "search" to find out how to find something, the only topic offered is "Dontsearch". Not helpful to the guy who has forgotten what the verb is. A concept list is of course difficult, but maybe you could invite people to send in examples of things they wanted but couldn't find, and add them to a cross index. Hope that helps. PS how about a 2.1 addendum for the book?