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From: marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall)
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Subject: beginner NeWS questions
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Date: 30 Apr 88 21:01:22 GMT
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	We just got 1.1 in for our 3/260's, our first copy of
NeWS, and I'm totally stoked. I have just a few simple questions
if nobody minds. Thanks in advance.

  - Which terminal emulator program does everyone use, and why?
    I've only heard about psterm before, but 1.1 has nterm in it,
    which seems to have a lot more things in it than psterm does.

  - Is there a way to specify the font family for psterm to use?
    I couldn't find documentation to support this.

  - Is there a way for psterm not to scale the font, and just change
    the window size? The documentation says no.

  - Is there a way for psterm to understand multi-click text selections,
    e.g. one click is for characters, two clicks is for words, etc. ala
    shelltool? The documentation says no. If not, why not? I think this
    is a really good feature. Is this sort of temporal analysis even
    possible in NeWS?

  - Is there a way for the pull right menus to retain state information,
    ala suntools? Virtually the only time I used this features in suntools
    was for text stuffing, which is were I would also want to use it in NeWS.

  - Can someone explain why moving a window over the "Group" root background
    is significantly slower than over the "Plain" background when moving the
    entire window contents?

  - How do I list out the procedure names in the global CaretShapeDict dictionary?


Eric Marshall
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