ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (06/10/91)
The MPW 3.2 Shell has been released, on the System 7.0 "Golden Master" CD. Naturally I upgraded straight off from 3.2b12. Here are some impressions from a couple of days of use. First the pluses: Text entry is noticeably faster--back up to 3.1 speeds, in fact! Even scrolling in 8-bit mode seems faster on my vintage II. Extending the selection using shift and the arrow keys now correctly autoscrolls in both directions. *And* when you reverse direction and try to reduce the selection, it doesn't suddenly start extending it from the other end. Bravo! Command-shift-left- and right-arrows now extend the selection to the beginning and end of the line respectively. At last! Context switching under MultiFinder is noticeably quicker. I guess it must be doing less in between each call to WaitNextEvent. Nice. Now the minus: In the beta versions of 3.2, I could use the "Clear" key on the numeric keypad to delete the character following the insertion point. The release 3.2 no longer supports this, and the release notes make it clear that this only works with the extra "Delete" key on the extended keyboards. For shame! I don't have an extended keyboard, and don't see the need to pay for function keys just to get this capability. Is there any patch I can apply to get this feature back? Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00 Any opinions the author may express in this posting are sacred to Epimetheus, the Greek god of hindsight.
keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) (06/10/91)
In article <1991Jun10.191256.3929@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: > >In the beta versions of 3.2, I could use the "Clear" key on the >numeric keypad to delete the character following the insertion >point. The release 3.2 no longer supports this, and the release >notes make it clear that this only works with the extra "Delete" key >on the extended keyboards. For shame! I don't have an extended keyboard, >and don't see the need to pay for function keys just to get this >capability. Is there any patch I can apply to get this feature back? I wish that I had a clearly convincing reason for why the "Clear" function was removed. All I have is the reason put forth in a study done when the keyboard functions were redesigned, which is that using Clear would be in violation of the HI Guidelines. I'm not sure what that means. Anyway, here's a secret. (I don't think it's that big of a secret, but I hope the MPW guys done kill me, just the same. Actually, I didn't even know it was a secret until I failed to find it in the release notes.) Type "SetKeys" in the Shell, and examine the output. I'll let you figure things out from there. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "But where the senses fail us, reason must step in." - Galileo
hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) (06/10/91)
To: keith@Apple.COM Subject: Re: MPW 3.2 Shell comments Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer In-Reply-To: <53820@apple.Apple.COM> References: <1991Jun10.191256.3929@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO Cc: Bcc: You could also change your KCHR resource to put right-delete on the clear key in ALL your programs. Or just put it on shift clear or something. Playing with the KCHR of the system is good. -- ******************************************************* Povl H. Pedersen hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu HP48sx archive maintainer
kc@Apple.COM (Kurt Clark) (06/11/91)
There are a couple of undocumented ways to change the behavior of the
MPW Editor.
If you set the shell variable NewKeyBoardLayout to 1, the clear key will
function as it did previously. This will also change the behavior of
command-delete so that it deletes to end of line instead of end of file.
To delete to end of file, you need to use command-option-delete.
There is also a way to change the individual key bindings. The command name is
BindKey, and it has a commando so you can figure out how to use it.
To make the editor so that you can Cut and Paste text without losing markers,
set the shell variable InhibitMarkCopy to 0.
These are undocumented features that are likely to disappear in future
releases. They are untested and are not supported by Apple.
Hope this helps,
-Kurt
The opinions expressed are mine, not Apple Computers.urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (06/19/91)
In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <53831@apple.Apple.COM>,
kc@Apple.COM (Kurt Clark) writes:
< There are a couple of undocumented ways to change the behavior of the
< MPW Editor.
< [...]
< These are undocumented features that are likely to disappear in future
< releases. They are untested and are not supported by Apple.
<
However, they're extremely useful.
Please: Don't let them go away again!
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