Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!swatsun!garth From: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 2.0: Initial Reactions Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 90 03:24:59 GMT References: <4490@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Swarthmore College, PA, USA Lines: 30 In <4490@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes: > Well, I've just go 2.0 up and running on two of my cubes. Here are > some initial reactions: > > I'm still using Stuart 2.0, however, because the insert-line / > delete-line functions in Terminal are a little broken. You probably > won't notice the problem unless you use EMACS. If you use EMACS (most > of the people at NeXT don't, by the way), you'll get screwed alot --- > especially if you scroll one-line-up or one-line-down a lot. You might try running with strict vt100 compliance on, though this will cause you other headaches if your terminal window isn't the size of a vt100. > Speaking about META, the people at NeXT who made Terminal work don't > seem to understand that META-F is not the same as ... > If ALT-F transmits ESC-F instead of META-F (that is, an F with bit-8 > set, or ASCII 0xb6), you can't use ALT-F to terminate an incremental > search. You can use the Preferences panel to choose whether the Alternate key generates Escape sequences or characters with bit-8 set. Or use dwrite to specify an arbitrary prefix character. -- Garth Snyder | UUCP: {bpa,liberty}!swatsun!garth Swarthmore College | NET: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu 500 College Avenue | DOD#: 0085 Swarthmore, PA 19081 | QUOTE: "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur"