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- From: dtaylor@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Douglas Taylor)
- Subject: First Impressions on X-Comm
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.234132.11101@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Summary: Good Solid - Needs a Tad more Work
- Keywords: X-Comm ELM JR-Comm Natasha Badinov
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- Organization: Florida State University
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 23:41:32 GMT
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- These are my first impressions concerning X-Comm 1.00, and should not be
- taken as flaming or effervescing...
-
- X-Comm 1.00 seems like it has some major capabilities: it combines Snapping
- (from Buffer, as far as I can tell... maybe I missed something),
- external emulations, and even the one thing I have been begging for -
- it adds itself to the Tool Menu when Iconified...
-
- However, there are a couple of things that bother me - it seems to ignore
- "ctrl-C" when I type it, it loses characters on certain specific
- occasions, and it misbehaves when used with ELM (fails to delete some
- lines, goes wild when jumping back and forth...) - nothing serious,
- but annoying.
-
- So, how does it compare? Given some work, I would become very loyal to this
- term program; as loyal as I was to JR-Comm, even though I never hot
- officially registered (then again, my check was never cancelled either
- so it is probably the Post Office's fault). Things I would like to see,
- and which would cause me to register the program: effective external
- emulations (it GURU'd when I used it); Snapping from on-screen (I just
- probably missed it); true VT-100 handling, rather than simple ANSI
- emulation; if possible, make it possible to receive text and do other
- things! These are the same gripes I have with Term 2.4; right down
- to the failure to do anything else while receiving text. But, as I
- said earlier, these are good programs (X-Comm seems to have the advan-
- tage, but he probably fixed what he saw wrong with Term...), and when
- mature, will be far superior programs. Until the terms somehow fit
- to my needs (and, before anyone starts, I'm not *Demanding* anything-
- the programmers can do what they want...), I am forced to stick with
- JR-Comm 1.02a. Maybe when terminus comes out...
-
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