Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!psuvax1!gondor.psu.edu!flee From: flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: CMS woes (Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes) Message-ID: <3045@psuvax1.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 05:42:37 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax1.3045 Posted: Tue Nov 3 05:42:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 00:56:05 EST References: <3389@uw-june.UUCP> <1057@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Sender: netnews@psuvax1.psu.edu Reply-To: flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Organization: The Roadside Picnic Lines: 20 Keywords: human factors, interfaces In article <1057@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> dick@ucsfccb.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) writes: >In CMS, in full screen mode, using XEDIT, every that >I type at the end of a line takes me to the command area. >Not what I meant. I too hated (actually ) taking you back to the command area. What I did was write a macro for the Enter key that put you on the command area only if you hadn't typed anything else. It also turned the command area on and off when necessary. Xedit is usable, potentially as powerful as Emacs, but not very nice. The defaults are awful. Unless you tell it otherwise, Xedit will UPPERCASE everything you type in. What's worse is the "monocase/duocase" switch on IBM 3270 terminals: if you set it to "monocase" mode, lower case characters still exist, but they're displayed as UPPERCASE, so you can't tell if you're typing lowercase or not. This confuses users who think that the switch acts like a Caps Lock and really does turn all those letters to uppercase. What you see is what you get, right? -- Felix Lee flee@gondor.psu.edu {cbosgd,cmcl2}!psuvax1!gondor!flee