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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: WHY IS VLT SOO BRAIN-DEAD! [please read]
- Message-ID: <crystal.722103058@glia>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:10:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.722103058
- References: <1992Nov18.074707.24963@mercury.unt.edu>
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- In <1992Nov18.074707.24963@mercury.unt.edu> west@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce West) writes:
-
- > First, VLT is great - I love it! Now, the problem...
-
-
- >** FIX THE DAMN REVIEW BUFFER -- ITS WORTHLESS RIGHT NOW!
-
-
- > The reason for this is that if you, say, ls a huge dir. You then wanna
- >step through your review buffer and choose which files to read or
- >something (bad example, I know). So you pop up the review window, and skip
- >up to the top of the directory listing. You then go to your VLT window
- >and type this file. Good. Now, you want to "page down" in the review
- >buffer. So you go up to the review buffer and BOOM. It has now scrolled
- >down the length of the file you just read. THIS IS USELESS, the review buffer
- >should scroll independently. For example, you can't cat a huge file and at
- >the same time step through the review buffer -- it just keeps bouncing
- >around!
- > FIX THIS PLEASE! Or tell me how I can fix it! This makes the entire
- >review system uterly worthless for any practical use. I'm using the latest
- >version btw, on an A3000.
-
- >Ciao....
-
- >Jason B West
-
- >ps: Don't respond by email - I don't get my mail for some readson.
-
-
- Would increasing the buffer size solve your problem?
- I know it won't solve the jumping around when you are cat'ing and stepping
- through, but a larger buffer may at least let you keep more of what you hae
- already put in there. Just a random thought...
-
- Crystal
- ;>
-