Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!cedman From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: VLT suggestions (was: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem) Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 20:38:29 GMT References: <1718@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb12.134052.27100@sarah.albany.edu> <91045.113010WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU's message of 14 Feb 91 19:30:10 GMT In article <91045.113010WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: Instead of just hoping that "those programs get better keyboard support" why not tell us what doesn't work? VLT, for example, supports complete dead-keying. What else is there? Of course, you may have a *different* problem, like leaving VLT's strip 8th bit option on. Or maybe you just didn't try later versions. I am using VLT since a quite early version and am quite happy with it, overall. Still I've a few suggestions to make: 1. Throw out all internal transfer protocolls and give slightly easier access to external ones (the new menu for external protocolls in VLT 5.034 is a step in the right direction). Using internal and external protocolls is not only inelegant but also costs memory and diskspace. 2. Add a simple command to simply send a short ascii file. While using XPRascii for this works, I think there ought to be a simpler way. 3. There is a dangerous bug (or feature if you so wish) in saving the highlighted region of the review window. Using "Save as" you get the option to append/overwrite/a.s.o. if the file already exists. Use "save and the old file gets overwritten without comment. I found this out yesterday the hard way. save should offer the same option, or even preferably do the same thing as last time. 4. I've never noticed any keymap support in VLT. You can define key macros, but only for a few key/modifier combinations. What I'd really like to see is a saveable option which selects a keymap to use within VLT. Please don't tell me about 'setmap'. I'd like to have a particular keymap _only_ for VLT. If that existed you could use all the keymap editors to create far more complex keyboard macros and you could throw out the macros from VLT, further shrinking VLT. Carl Edman "We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do." -- Auberon Herbert Send mail to Carl Edman