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- From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Amigaguide Lib V40+
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 13:19:57 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Services
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- perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen) wrote:
- >And sometimes it's not worth it. I use 3.0 in everything except
- >amigaguide, where i still use version 34. Why? Because i think it's
- >better. Sure it doesn't have some of the fancy formatting commands, but
- >it does allow you to nagivate a document by keys allone. Something which
- >seem to have been lost. (Kan you press r to retrace for instance?)
-
- No, you have to press '/' for some reason. You can browse with
- '<' and '>', and quit with 'Q' or ESC. I don't think there's a key
- for 'Contents', though.
-
- >It has a search function
-
- Yes, the lack of a search function in AG V40 is a joke.
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- >and most important you can actually *cut*
- >text from the guides.
-
- By 'cut' I assume you really mean 'copy a section of'. AG V40 does
- support copying, but only for the node as a whole.
-
- Basically the whole AG library/datatype could do with serious
- reworking, perhaps even replacement by an HTML datatype.
-
- Nick
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