Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!ghoti+ From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Dear Saint Andrew... Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 14:41:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 17-Jul-90 Re: Dear Saint Andrew... Nathaniel Borenstein@thu (11539+0) >> I wish the caret wouldn't always take the font style of the previous >> character -- it makes it especially frustrating to try and insert a new >> word first on a line and discover that it took the font props of the >> previous line. [MS Word, MacWrite, etc. does this right] > Earlier versions of Andrew toolkits did this right. This was changed > when the current ATK was written, and I've argued that it was a mistake > ever since. It would be trivial to change it, or at least make it a > preference option. Actually, I think there might already be one -- try adding the preference: StylesIncludeEnd: no > Neat idea, but I think the "middle button == mouse" equation is > hard-wired, both in the code and in the minds of the people who wrote > it... :-) (Presumably that should be "middle button == menus" ) --fish