Re: Making mode commands symmetrical (or should I say complementary?)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote.
No. sorry. I've been using the out-of-the-box method since I first got Xy4.

Well I know the value of sticking to what one has automatized.
If you want to bold (or ital or underline-don't; underline, I mean), you
hit ctrl-B (or whatever other key you've defined, but this is the Windows
CUA, so it's easy to remember) at the beginning, then Ctrl-B or whatever
again at the end. And if you want to bold an already defined block, you
just have to hit ctrl-B ONCE (using the out-of-the-box keys):
F3 to begin define
move to end, F3 again
Ctrl-B
the whole block has  at the beginning and  at the end.

Yes, and that's one more keystroke than the way I do it.
Independently of the issue of keystroke economy, I find that in Tame, doing
it your way doesn't make it show up as actually bolded (the way Tame can
actually bold things onscreen). The  and  are there, but no
bolding. You have to save and re-CAll the file to get it to show bold if
you do the define-then-bold method. But ctrl-B and ctrl-N work immediately
in Tame.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx