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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 14:15:12 EST
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- From: Tom Schlesinger <tos@OZ.PLYMOUTH.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Bugs etcs.
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- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Michael Dick" at Dec 16, 92 5:55 pm
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- >
- > 2. I absolutely despise, hate, deplore, reject, etc. (I'm not using the
- > Thesaurus here since it always says insufficient memory any way) the way NB4
- > handles columns. I wrote a "matching test" yesterday (I realize it's a
- > pedagogical cop-out!) and thought I would go crazy trying to handle the
- > cursor; it's so very poorly designed. I used to use it a lot, but now....
- > The use of home and end keys in this "novel" way introduces a element of
- > unanticipateable spontaneity in cursor control.
- >
- > Michael Dick (DICK@SIENA)
-
- I strongly concur with the above. It's one of several things that now work
- less reliably, less predictably, and more tediously.
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- >
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