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From: ldo@peace.waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW wish list
Summary: It's nearly perfect already
Keywords: MPW, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.065751.29303@peace.waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 23 Jan 90 06:57:51 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Here's my list of what I'd like to see in future versions
of MPW.

* The ability to use the contents of a window (or the current
  selection within a window) as both input and output in the *same*
  command. That way, I can do nifty things like reformat code
  (which I've transferred from another machine) with

	Entab -d 8 -t 4 <"{Target}" >"{Target}"

  without having to mess around with intermediate temporary
  files. At the moment, if you try this, you immediately lose
  the portion of text you were trying to operate on. I'd be quite
  happy if this new feature were to work only with open windows,
  not with arbitrary files.

* The ability to extend the selection by holding down the
  shift key while pressing the arrow keys, as per Inside
  Plusintosh, pages IV-5 to IV-6, which was published in
  1986, remember. I was surprised (and disappointed) not
  to see this feature in MPW 3.0.

* The ability for tools to invoke scripts and other tools,
  and to generally multitask within the MPW environment. System 7
  will provide the IPC infrastructure (or so we keep getting told),
  will MPW 4.0 take advantage of it?

Wouldn't it be luverly...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
PC/networking consultant and sometime programmer
Computer Services Dept
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
ldo@waikato.ac.nz