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From: beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW editor bites
Message-ID: <10859@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 12 Mar 91 19:44:46 GMT
References: <3276@autodesk.COM>
Reply-To: beard@ux5 (Patrick C Beard)
Organization: Berkeley Systems, Inc.
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X-Local-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 11:44:46 PST

In article <3276@autodesk.COM> robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
#MPW's editor is really unfortunate in two respects:
#
#    The window doesn't scroll horizontally to follow the insert point.
#    Holding down shift and using the arrow keys doesn't select any
#    	text.
#
#The first bug is especially lame in that the window _does_ follow the
#insertion point _vertically_!
#
#Both of these are really annoying, especially for someone used to
#WriteNow which does all of this stuff _properly_.
#
#Any idea if any new version of the Shell that would support these two
#little but important features is forthcoming?

Solution:  Get ETO!  The latest shell does both of these as you request.  It
also feates several other improvements.
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//  Patrick C. Beard, Software Engineer, Berkeley Systems, Inc.
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