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RE: SEUL: Text editors.




I stuck a screendump of how it looks on my desktop (after selecting save as...)
at http://www.shorelink.com/screendump.gif


On 19-Feb-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> 
> Hi. I finally got around to trying out the XView clients editor. I wasn't
> that blown away, I prefer the ones that we have. The main flaws: first,
> openlook makes heavy use of the right mouse button. For example, the
> pulldown menus go down when you click the _RIGHT_ button, not the left.
> There are no key bindings listed on the menu. I guess the nice thing about
> it has word-wrap which works just beautifully, but unfortunately, the UI
> is unlikely to be terribly easy for windows users. Also, I still can't
> work out how to close the darn thing. 
> 
> No, I don't regard it as intuitive at all (and besides, the XView stuff is
> ugly... ) but anyway, I'll put it on my editors page with screen-shots and
> all. But I think we'd be better served with another choice.
> 
> -- Donovan
> 
> 
> 

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