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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW Shell 3.2 wish
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.174935.23515@svc.portal.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 17:49:35 GMT
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In article <2577.277bac4f@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> 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.
> 
	YUCH!  I've been using the MPW 3.2 shell since the first Q release
on ETO #1, and I make frequent use of the split window.  My usage is exactly
in line with the implementation that Apple has chosen - the ability to be
looking at two (or more) different parts of a source file at the same time.
This is quite useful for things such as viewing the initialization and the
disposal parts of a subroutine at the same time to make sure you are disposing
of everything you allocated (for example).  It has also come in handy for
copying sections of code from one place to another w/o having to continually
jump around with marks.
	I do not argue the 'sync scrolling' is a useful feature, but I have
yet to find a time where I really wanted it - and those few times were where
I wanted TWO DIFFERENT files to be synced!
	All I have to say is a big THANKS to the MPW team!!

Leonard Rosenthol
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