Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ll-xn!adelie!morgoth!steve
From: steve@morgoth.UUCP (Steve Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Summary: Well, at least I wasn't out in left field  :-)
Keywords: RE: 1.4 Enhancement Wish List Picture Boot
Message-ID: <505@morgoth.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 14:13:17 GMT
References: <504@morgoth.UUCP> <3453@amiga.UUCP>
Organization: Goldberg-Zoino and Assoc., Newton, MA
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In article <3453@amiga.UUCP>, jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) replied:
> 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 ...

I thought that address was just for bug reports...Hmmm, now you'll be
getting tons of mail from everyone here who wants their ideas
officially noticed!

> )	1) Change the requester-hand in the ROM.  You know, the one of

		   [ stuff I wrote about changing hand deleted ]

> 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.

Yeah, I can see where that would be a problem...kinda tough to a draw
a nice picture that's <= 833 bytes  :-)

> )	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

	    [ stuff I wrote about moving on the command line deleted ]

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

So this *is* something that would be worthwhile to put in...  There
was a post by someone else saying that he just switched from ConMan to
the NewShell.  ConMan is a wonderful utility, but it's kinda silly to
load it up just to get the ability to move back and forth on the
command line!  Is it possible to change the Shell so that we can use
the pointer to click on where we want the cursor to be in the command line?

> )	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?

		[ some more of my ramblings deleted ]

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

Yeah, I really want that!  Let's see, what would I give you for it?

			  /----\
			 /       \
		        |  ZZZ   /
			|  ZZZ   |
			 \      /
		          \___  |
			      \/
			     
			    /-\
			    \_/
			 /-\
			 \_/

Well, you can have my parents (I don't use 'em much anymore :-), my
first born child (but you have to name him "LEO"), and of course, my
undying gratitude!

> )	4) That brings up another thing...  How about a section in

	[ OK, so I rambled on about some function key nonsense too... ]

> 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.

Sounds good; any idea of a release time on that?

	Thanks for the response, Jim.  It's nice to see that CBM is
actually reading this stuff and responding :-)  

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