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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW Shell 3.2 wish
Message-ID: <2577.277bac4f@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 28 Dec 90 07:34:23 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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From my brief looks at two pre-release versions, the MPW 3.2 Shell
seems to have some nice new features--in its handling of markers,
and other areas.

The ability to split a window into multiple panes is nice, but I
think it could be made nicer: there's no need for every pane to
have its own set of scroll bars. All you've done is given the
Mac "tiled" windows, a la Microsoft Windows 1.0x! I think it
would actually be more useful to lock each row and column of panes
so that they scrolled in unison, governed by a single scroll
bar. This needn't be made an option: if you really wanted
to view completely independent parts of the same text file, you
could handle that by allowing the opening of multiple windows
on the one file.

Sound familiar? It's the way Excel handles its worksheet windows.
It's one of the few things Microsoft got right, and I think it's
worth emulating.

Uhh, they don't have a copyright or a patent on it--do they...?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
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