Re: Xywrite antiques

["Oun Kwon" KwonO@xxxxxxxx]

Re: NB key assignments.

Because of its immaturity (despite much better product compared to Xy-win)
as a windows word processor, I have not succeeded using NB-win as my tool
(reluctantly using Microsoft Word). When I hear on your e-mail telling me
that Control-(alphanumerals) are hard-wired in NB, this is a shock to me.

For example, on XyWrite, I have a short program to Control-M and additional
key input "b" brings up "bold", "i" for "italic",
"u" for underline.
Another example; Control-S with additional key input "a"  brings "save as",
"s" does "save", "d" saves to floppy disk, etc.  This way I can save
precious keyboard action for so many useful functions. Control-i then works
for various insert functions, etc.

If NB restricts my freedom to customize the keyboard file, why I ever have
to bother with NB when every where one find (a wonderfully matured
full-fledged) MS Word to use!  The only concession I can have is Alt+
which is universal for windows operating system and windows application
programs (as Xy-win).

Advantage I need over MS Word:

1. command line functions including file management (e.g. del, copy, ...
etc.)
2. freedom from user cutomizable keyboard file.
3. code view.

Thanks for your information.

≫> yesss@xxxxxxxx 07/20 12:25 PM ≫>
≪ The point she was making was that there are a lot of keys
that NBWIN does NOT allow you to define, no matter what you
put in your kbd file ... ≫ --Rene von Rentzell

≪ (1) which keys are these ≫ --Bill Troop

Hi, Bill. If you have nbWin I think you already
have lists of hard-coded keys: *.KBD (XYWRITE.KBD,
NB.KBD, whatever) supershift tables--possibly
originally in [d:\...]\NB\USERS\DEFAULT, the subdir
where some of the heaviest nbWin action goes on
(especially NB.INI--see http://www.escape.com/~yesss/_x45xpl.htm).

Harry mentioned his frustration at nbWin's insistence
on overriding his preferred Ctrl+F assignment. As far
as I can tell, the *entire* nbWin Ctrl+alphabetic table
is hard-coded. (As Leslie pointed out about Alt keys,
if you map something to a dedicated key the app performs
the hard-coded function *plus* whatever you've mapped--
not a pretty picture.)

By contrast, in xyWin basically only the handful of
Alt+alphabetic keys that address the menus behave
that way.

≪ (2) would Anne please tell us if these concerns
will, or can, ever be addressed? ≫

Since these dedicated keys activate nbWin functions,
I don't think it's unrealistic to guess that the file
that defines them (whatever it is) belongs to nbWin,
not SmartWords, thus isn't required to use the editor.
But only Anne can say for sure, and whether these
concerns ever *will* be addressed. ... Ciao. 			--a

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