Re: Xy'd NB

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Michael wrote,
> I think so, Harry. And in my exploring I keep turning up...well...if not
> bugs then bacteria. For example, to make the NB screen resemble XY, you
> can View-->toggle to "Full Window." Make the mistake of quitting without
> toggling back to standard view and I get
>
> Emacs!

Literally? Where does that come from?
> the next time I try to call the program up, and the only remedy is to
> reinstall. Reading the NB archive, I find lots of traffic on general
> protection faults, all with slightly different addresses, and none with
> remedies.
> Another thing I noticed, NB does not like ctrlx keyboard tables or calls
> (I wish someone would remind me what the heck we put the X after ctrl in
> the kbd file in the first place.)
I recall that it produces better behavior when you start departing from the
standard .kbd file.
> Certainly there might be something in my overall setup. Robert reports no
> problems importing his XY kbd into NB and I can't imagine mine is more
> jury-rigged than his.
> It's easy to curse NB as cranky; maybe it is. But it's a good alternative,
> and V8 at last lets you customize screen colors, has a decent draft mode
> and so on.
I gave up on NB 8 because of such problems--especially the fact that
several of the alt keys have to function as Windows alt keys, taking me up
to the menus. Robert suggested a workaround, but it meant giving up on
using alt keys in NB, and that was not what I wanted.
One thing I love about Xy is its solidity and predictability. Others have
had Out of Memory problems, over the years, but I never got even them,
except when writing very long XPL programs. In my philosophic writing, I
don't want to live in fear of losing even a paragraph that I have just
written. I guess I could get around that by having it autosave every
minute, but still the crashes break the creative flow.

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx