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From: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (christopher wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macro Maker and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <1257@nvuxr.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 15:37:04 GMT
References: <5150@tank.uchicago.edu> <13825@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (22456-christopher wood)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, NJ
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In article <13825@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> samalone@athena.mit.edu) writes:

I wrote:

  For all the bad talk it's been getting, I've found macro maker useful.
in emacs.  Very useful.  Now, the problem is, when I switch to my word
processor (under multifinder), the arrow keys still give the
smartcom/emacs commands...

Stuart A. Malone writes:

No, no, no!  MacroMaker will work just fine!  You need to understand that
MacroMaker has two kinds of macros: global macros, that work in all programs;
and application macros, that are only active in a specific program.
Christopher just needs to use the pop-up menu in the MacroMaker window to put
the arrow keys into the "Smartcom macros" section instead of the "Global
macros" section.  Then all should be well.

				--Stuart A. Malone
				samalone@athena.mit.edu

And I reply...

But the macros ARE in the "Smartcom macros" section.  Im in my word
processor.  I switch (under multi-finder) to Smartcom, where I'm logged
in to a unix host running emacs.  I hit the arrow keys, and funny
characters get typed.  I mouse up to the Macromaker menu, and it knows
that I'm in Smartcom, and has a list of my macros.  It just won't run
them, until I open Macromaker and close it again.  Now it works fine. 
Then I switch back to my word processor, and use the arrow keys.  They
still have the emacs bindings, even though they're not listed in the
MacreMaker menu.  It's a bug.  Is there a fix?


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Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!nvuxr!ccw
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