Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW editor bites Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 22:32:10 GMT References: <3276@autodesk.COM> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 19 In comp.sys.mac.programmer, 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. < < Any idea if any new version of the Shell that would support these two < little but important features is forthcoming? < 3.2 (at least the alpha I have here) does both right. (More or less -- depending on your personal definition of "right". It tries to scroll first and then apply the keystroke, which isn't pretty when the key happens to be a backspace and the selection extends partly to the right of the window.) -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49-721-621127(0700-2330) \o)/