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From: shadow@pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
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Subject: Re: beginner NeWS questions
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Date: 2 May 88 06:46:47 GMT
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In article <8804301701.AA07101@brillig.umd.edu> marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) writes:
>
>	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.

I use psterm, because for some reason, our NeWS 1.1 does not have nterm.

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

I doubt it..  Possibly by changing the UserProfile entries, but I doubt psterm
bothers to pay attention to them.

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

No, there isn't.

>  - 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?

No, psterm can't do that, either.  No mouse tracking, either.  And yes, NeWS
is capable of doing that and much more.  Keep in mind that in almost any
given situation, NeWS is much more flexible than Suntools.  But it is newer
and therefore less developed.  Such features and more will surely be added in
time...  Also bear in mind that psterm is hopelessly brain-damaged.  It does
a lot, but it needs to be rewritten or replaced...

>  - 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.

Certainly, the menus can hold whatever state information they want.  HOW to do
so, I don't know, offhand...

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

because it takes rather a bit more computing to figure out what needs to be
repainted...

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

easisest way:
psh
executive
Welcome to NeWS version 1.1
CaretShapeDict ==
quit

CAUTION:  For large dictionaries (esp. systemdict) the NeWS server may crash.

>Eric Marshall
>Software Productivity Consortium
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>
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