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[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

REply to message from Patricia M. Godfrey

I had written my question from home, where I do not have Xy4 installed, and
so had to rely on my memory (never the correct action, in my case) for the
thing that bugged me. It's been so long since I actually fired-up 4...I was
only slightly off, though.

My actual problem with Xy4 is this: When I return to full screen 4 using
Alt\Tab, it's not that the cursor has moved to the cmd-line...it's that the
navigation band (I have no idea what it's really called - it's the thing
that obscures the cmd-line) has now appeared, and the keyboard is focused on
it instead of the text area. Getting rid of it is not exactly difficult, but
having to make it go away each time is quite annoying to me. Especially
since seventeen years of habit does not allow me to automatically hit ESC as
soon as I return to Xy.

(and having tested it just now, I noticed that what I had left on the cmd-
line WAS cleared...which also makes 4 unusable for me)

>REply to message from Brian Henderson

>What's your default DT? Expanded? Draft? With or without page-line display?
(I don't think the latter would make a difference, really.)

Patricia,

I've always installed 4 by telling it to emulate 3 as much as possible, and
except for that navigation thingy, it usually looks pretty much like 3
always looks...a plainish text area, no expanded tags (I only ever see Tags
when working with macros), with the cmd-line at the top of the screen...is
that Draft? (And what IS this graphics mode y'all talk about now and then?
Graphics in Xywrite?! What an odd concept.)

Carl,

The Tab key assignment was the out-of-the-box 15=KF...I changed it to NO
just for the heck of it...made no difference (and since this is an entirely
different proposition than I first described, Tab key assignment is probably
irrelevant anyway).

-Brian H.


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m2 xylist re RE: ersatz autosave...? (Speaking of...)

Reply to note from  Mon, 7 Mar 2005
07:44:20 -0800

> My actual problem with Xy4 is this: When I return to full
> screen 4 using Alt\Tab, it's not that the cursor has moved to
> the cmd-line...it's that the navigation band (I have no idea
> what it's really called