From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.2.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24130>; Mon, 19 Sep 1994 05:38:47 -0400 Received: from ncl.bygate (bygate.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (5.65cVUW/NCL-CMA.1.35 for ) with SMTP; Mon, 19 Sep 1994 10:38:35 +0100 From: Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk Message-Id: Subject: Re: (click) undo To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 05:38:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <29881.9409190831@epcfta.ed.ac.uk> from "Andrew Higham" at Sep 19, 94 04:31:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > I'm not sure what you mean by this - in my experience, undo is done in the > > following circumstances: > > - as part of a cmd-u-cmd-u sequence, as i try to get the cmd *just* > > right. > > - in a long sequence of u,u,u,u... as i decide that what i've done for > > the last ten minutes is the wrong tack > > - just once, because i'm forgotten to change the focus before typing. > and you can do each of a long sequence with a single mouse click once you've selected the "u". i must say that running sam under X11, i've found it much easier to use since: a) using 9term - which means i'm using the same input model most of the time when entering commands - eg. previously i found it hard to get the hang of the `output point' in the sam command window, now it seems perfectly natural. b) adding the patch which gives "mouse-to-type" - so it matches my window manager and other windowing applications. previously i frequently typed in the "wrong" window requiring a subsequent "undo". i also now find it less irksome going to the command window for a single command, gerry --- Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Tel: +44 191 222 8139 Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 191 222 8232