Re: A couple of issues -Reply

[James D. Besser]

** Reply to note from Steve Crutchfield 05/08/96 08:49am -0400
> I've seen this assertion before here, recently. But is it true? I was under
> the impression that Auto-Expand aka Auto-Replace was completely restored with
> Xy4. It was a much-mentioned selling point, the "restoration of
> auto-expansion". I'm testing function AZ right now under v4.017, and it's > expanding
like crazy. Likewise funcs AR (the discretionary version,
> "Manual-Expand") and AC Auto-Check: they all work.

Auto-expand works as well in 4.X as it did in 3.55, b efore it was removed.
I know; I almost never turn it off, and my auto-replace dictionary is massive, since I
spend my days interviewing on the phone.

Scroll speed is also significantly faster in 4.014, don't know why. On a
486/66 under OS/2, I gain no speed by switching back to 3.55, and I lose nice features
like autosave without the screen jumping up to the top.

But the speller in 4.X remains seriously flawed. Manually correcting a word often results
in the word being erased in the dialogue box. When it finds a word duplicated, it asks if
you want to delete the second occurance--but doesn't point to where it is in the text, as
3.55 did.

I don't know how many times I've stared at teh screen, looking for that mistakenly
duplicated "the" or "a." A real pain in the tuchis.

jb

        ***James D. Besser, Washington correspondent ***