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From: Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight)
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Subject: Re: Another Mpw 3.2 Shell
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Date: 30 Jan 91 00:07:54 GMT
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ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) suggests:
 
>There is another way of doing this, and that's not to have an active
>pane as such. Instead, you display the selection in all panes where
>it is visible. And when the user executes a command (like Find)
>that would require autoscrolling to keep the selection visible,
>you simply scroll the pane that's showing a part of the file closest
>to the new selection. In other words, autoscroll the one that would
>require the least scrolling.
 
No, I don't necessarily want both panes to be in sync. If I do a find
and the next found thing happens to be visible in the inactive pane
then I don't mind it being selected (though I'd want that as an
option), but certainly I don't want that pane to change its position
unless I make it active. One thing that would be good is a mark in a
pane that reminds you which pane is the currently active one.
 
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