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From: calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: SpeedScript Evaluation Report
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 00:15:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 00:15:17 1985
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I agree with Wally Blake's praise of SpeedScript (I have an earlier version),
with one exception. The cursor's inability to move straight up or down
is a big nuisance. Sure, it's nice to be able to move from sentence to 
sentence, but that function is duplicated (as Blake mentioned) on the
f-keys. The only reason I can figure for not allowing straight up-down
cursor movement (i.e., staying in the same column or defaulting to the
end of the line if it is shorter than the previous line) is that the
cursor would have to re-figure the word-wrap, in other words,
it was too much trouble to write the code.

My version won't store files in ASCII at all, so I hacked in a pair of 
arrays to convert files as they are loaded and saved. In the process I
managed to neutralize most of the printer commands, and I never got
around to fixing that, but it works fine for sending files into
work, if I can remember to make them sequential files (by putting
  ,s,w   after the name when saving to disk).



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James  Calloway
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