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From: Eric.Rosenquist@CRC2.SKL.DND.CA
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: MOTIF 1.1.0 Bug - XmText
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Date: 16 Nov 90 20:19:23 GMT
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> I can't understand how one could get used to this. If I hit next-page a bunch
> of times, and I'm looking at text in the middle of the buffer, how am I
> supposed to start editing that text? Am I supposed to reach over, grab the
> mouse and click on the spot I want to modify? Phooey! Whether it's Mac-standard
> or not, it's unfriendly behaviour. No WP package *I*'ve ever used does this,
> and no incarnation of vi or emacs does either. Text widgets are *supposed* to
> be keyboard-driven. By definition. By nature. By Divine Law. If I have to be
> grabbing at mice just to move around through the text, we're all in trouble.

Of the Mac programs I've used, none of them have had a keyboard action
that had the same effect as clicking in the scroll bar.  All of them
however leave the insertion point alone if the window is scrolled
using the scroll bar.  I like this behavior since in, say, MS-Word, I
can quickly zip around and view another part of the file and then
return to the insertion point simply by typing something.

Personally, I'd want PageUp and PageDown to move the window *and*
insertion point by one 'page', unless of course every other Motif
program on earth had them just moving the scroll bar around :-)

Eric
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