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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
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Subject: Re: Son of TMON Pro (or: what does it really do?)
Message-ID: <1991May6.180136.23032@santra.uucp>
Date: 6 May 91 18:01:36 GMT
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In article <42005@cup.portal.com> Jerry_D_Whitnell@cup.portal.com writes:
>Jonathan Pratt  writes...
>|The only negative comment I have is that, at least on a IIci with 8
>|bit color, TMON Pro feels a bit sluggish compared with TMON 2.8.4.
>|There's enough of a lag now in single stepping that I wouldn't want
>|to step through very many instructions.  Such may be the price of
>|power, and there is compensation with the above-mentioned shortcuts.
>
>While I agree with this comment in general (it is slower), it will respond
>to keyboard events (mouse-downs I havn't tried) while it is drawing.  So
>if you hit cmd-s twice very quickly, you'll see that it doesn't complete
>drawing the screen for the first cmd-s, but will execute the second cmd-s
>immediatly then redraw the screen.

I'm still reading the tutorial manual, but I find that it's not the slowness
that's annoying with TMON Pro, but the things that they have changed.

There are plenty of nice ASCII symbols they could have used for special
operators, but they had to use delta and dagger. They might be easy to
remember and use as long as you were typing on a US keyboard, but you
need option-shift-d on the Finnish keyboard for the Delta. I already
changed my KCHR so that it's in an easier place, but I wonder what was
wrong with plain old ASCII characters.

BTW: This is also one of the ways why I very rarely use MPW.

If I debug an INIT, I have to use the US keycaps. It was already quite
confusing when some normal keys changed from the Finnish position to
the US version, but now I have to start learning two sets of option-
keycaps. Believe me, they are quite different.

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