RE: xy windows

["Tom Robertson" t-r@xxxxxxxx]

Folks

In XyDos, I set up the numbers on the Number Key pad as windows I reach with
Shift-1-9. This lets me, and those I teach this program to, to think of each
of the windows as a stack of nine monitor screens. I have developed a
pattern of use over the years, where Shift-1 and Shift-4 are my main working
windows, all my notes in Shift-8, my main .SPL file is called into window
nine (Shift-9). I throw stuff in the other windows as I need to.

I have a few clients who use all nine windows and one who for a while was
loading two copies of XyWrite so she could have fourteen windows open at one
time. She was writing cook books and using a bunch of her old materials.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:36 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: xy windows


T.Olson:
>QUIT. Another thing I have in that keyboard table is to go directly to
>any of XyWrite's 9 windows. F12+1 goes to window 1; F12+2 goes to window
>2; etc.

Ctrl+Shift+Number for me. But it is interesting to see what others
find comfortable.

>Another item that goes hand in hand with this is a default setting. I
>have
>d NW=0
>in my startup.int. This means that whatever window I'm in, I stay in;
>XyWrite doesn't open a new window when I open a file, or go back to a
>previous window when I ABort or STore the file.

Absolutely. I find the "automatic windows" function annoying as hell...
almost feels like a Microsoft idea. Youch.


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