Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!homxb!twolf
From: twolf@homxb.ATT.COM (T.WOLF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TEMPUS
Summary: shortcomings
Message-ID: <3280@homxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 22:12:51 GMT
References: <1445@blake.acs.washington.edu> <404@wn2.sci.kun.nl> <11954@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T BL Holmdel NJ USA
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In article <11954@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jmorton@newton.Berkeley.EDU (John Morton) writes:
> My biggest gripe about Tempus is that there is apparently no way to
> change the level of indentation of a block.  This would seem to be
> a very important function to the structured programmer who doesn't
> do everything right the first time.

I don't know what the most current version of Tempus is (I have 1.10), but
my biggest gripe also has to do with the way they chose to implement
blocks.  If you want to mark a block using the mouse, you first have to
position the cursor to the beginning line, click once, go over to the menu-bar,
select "Start Block", point the cursor to the "ending-line", click the mouse,
run over to the menu, select "Stop Block", and voila!  It doesn't take many
of these maneuvers to wear our your mouse, arm, and patience.

It would seem much more natural to just be able to point the mouse at the
beginning-line, depress one of the mouse-buttons and hold it down until
you've positioned the pointer to the end-line - then let go of the button
(ie. use "rubber-banding".)

I guess you can use the control-keys to mark the beginning/end of the block,
but they are hard to remember if you you're an emacs (or vi) user.

Have newer versions of Tempus (if any) solved these deficiencies?


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