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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Keywords: 1.4 Enhancement Wish List Picture Boot
Message-ID: <3453@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 05:00:33 GMT
References: <504@morgoth.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <504@morgoth.UUCP> steve@morgoth.UUCP (Steve Hall) writes:

Well, I wasn't going to get involved in this wishlist business, since
there is a proper forum for enhancement requests (which is mail to
cbmvax!bugs).  But, I decided the heck with it ...


)	1) Change the requester-hand in the ROM.  You know, the one of
)	   the hand holding the Kickstart/Workbench disk.  We have an
)	   incredible graphics machine; the opening screen should be a
)	   work of art (how about an animation)!  C-A could even sponsor
)	   a contest; they wouldn't have to give out much in the way
)	   of prizes - Just knowing that your picture/animation could
)	   be in every amiga should be incentive enough!
)	   Now I know you are all gonna say "This is a silly wish,
)	   besides the fact that it's not on the screen for very long
)	   if at all!".  I know, but it would be so *easy* (I assume)!

The key point here is that the roms are 256K big and have been full
for two releases now.  This, along with human resources (if you can call
us that) demand that we pick and choose our fights very carefully.

We actually did discuss a contest to replace the hand, and listed a
number of good criteria, but one of them was "833 bytes maximum, code
and data" or something like that.

)	2) Change the command-callback feature of the shell so that
)	   SHIFT-LEFT ARROW will move to the start of the previous
)	   word and SHIFT-RIGHT ARROW will move to the start of the
)	   next word.  It is so annoying to have a long command typed
)	   in, only to discover that you made a typo smack dab in the
)	   middle of the line!  If I remeber correctly, ConMan does a
)	   great job in this respect, but I don't want to run it just
)	   for that when I already have the standard Shell!

Yeah.  I second that.  I also just run ConMan, no problem.
I'd like 'vi' style editing, actually.

)	3) One last thing (for now :-)  I know there are utilities out
)	   there that can shrink a window to the minimum or expand it
)	   to the maximum.  Could something like that be implimented?
)	   I would be nice to able to shrink my CLI or Shell to reveal
)	   the WorkBench screen behind it by hitting one function key.

Do you really want that, Steve?  What will you give me for it?

)	4) That brings up another thing...  How about a section in
)	   Preferences to allow the user to map the function keys to
)	   anything they want?  Or is this better left to a seperate
)	   utility program?

Separate program.  I just saw an announcement of a free keymap editor
go by.  Mapping keys on a per-window or per-application basis is
a little trickier, but should be possible someday.

	jimm
-- 
Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing	   	"Like you said when we crawled down
{cbmvax,well,oliveb}!amiga!jimm          from the trees: We're in transition."
							- Gang of Four
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