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- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 09:30:29 +0100
- From: Gerd Castan <castan@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <0097FB02.A75E71C0.19358@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Subject: Re: Proposal v5
- Precedence: bulk
-
-
- Hi,
-
- >On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Gerd Castan wrote:
- >
- >>
- >> In the case of block operations: Have discontinuous blocks in mind.
- >>
- >> Gerd
- >>
- >
- >Microsoft Excel was able to do that, and it handled blocks very
- >similiarly to the way Atari Works does, where the cursor is constrained
- >to within the block. It works very nicely and helps to keep things
- >orderly when the user is entering lists.
- With or without SHIFT, see later.
- >
- >But I've never seen a text editor (I haven't seen the one you mention)
- >that did discontinuous blocks. Sounds like it would be a pain to deal
- Only a pain for the programmer. For the user it's very easy and very
- powerfull.
- You don't have to do it. The only thing we have to do is to make a
- standard that *makes it possible* to do it.
- Apart from the shortcut we choose, with SHIFT it should append a new block
- and without SHIFT it should replace the old block.
-
- >with... I'd need to keep track of ANOTHER linked-list in memory.
- ><grumble> Memory management....
- You don't have to do it.
-
- Gerd
-