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- From: ficara@remus.rutgers.edu (ken ficara)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: VersaTerm - nice program BUT...
- Summary: Nits about VersaTerm vt100
- Keywords: VersaTerm 4.6
- Message-ID: <Dec.24.10.57.20.1992.3951@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 15:57:20 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 34
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- I've been using VersaTerm 4.6 for vt100 emulation for a couple of
- months now and it is a nice program ... faster than many other
- programs and with a lot more flexibility.
-
- But there's something about it that drives me NUTS -- I frequently use
- it to accesss a tty-interface service and retrieve long documents that
- are streamed to the screen. With, say, MicroPhone II, I can start the
- transmission, then go to the top of the document and read it as it's
- streaming. New text is added at the end of the buffer, and I can just
- read down through it.
-
- Not in VersaTerm. Every time new data is received into the buffer, the
- program scrolls you right to the end of the buffer. So there is no way
- to read the top of the story as the bottom scrolls in -- you keep
- getting jumped back down to the new data that's being sent.
-
- Two related nits: I can't configure my keyboard so that the PAGE UP
- and PAGE DOWN keys (on an Apple extended kb) move the buffer locally
- rather than sending escape sequences to the host). Also, VersaTerm
- flashes the cursor to any spot that has to be written -- for instance,
- I'm writing this now in Emacs. When the time changes from minute to
- minute, the cursor flashes down to the mode line. When I delete text
- with Ctrl-D, the cursor flashes back and forth between the point and
- the text being deleted. It's extremely aggravating.
-
- Okay, those are my nits. :) It's a good program, I'd just like to see
- a few aspects of the buffer improved.
-
- (Also, it's got a very convenient internal texteditor which beats MP's
- idiotic editor by leagues.)
-
-
- Ken Ficara ficara@remus.rutgers.edu
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