RE: Xy4 Setup

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:03:23 +0900 (JST)


>> After all, how often do you type "SHe" or
>> HEr"? 

> Very, very often.... NB, the beep doesn't bother me; the typo does.

Then "sie sie" is made for you! But I would call this a highly personal problem
and solution. After all, the notion that you are going to set up, in .SPL, all
common Capitalized words in form
 sHe she
 hEr her
just on the off chance that you might not release the Shift key in time for the
second character, is simply preposterous. ANY word could do that. It's a silly
idea on its face, because it extends to all 540,000 words in the language.

>> However this may have worked in early versions of Xy3+, it seems
>> compromised by the fact that v3.55 introduced some fairly indispensable
>> new features to 3+, but also did away with Auto-Correct/Replace. Which,
>> to me, makes any argument for [Auto-Correct in] Xy3+ completely academic.

> What indispensable features are those?

Goodness! You're asking me about dead-letter issues going back ten years or
more. But I'll try -- I may be wrong on version details though. You couldn't
capture a DeFined string simply by commanding  before v3.54 (you had to use
ordinary Save Gets A-Z, 0-9). You didn't have the XS parser, which is crucial. You
didn't have wildcard separators in XS until v3.55 (crucial)! The initial A la
carte menus were pathetic. There were many changes, in short. These may not
concern any user who just "types". But no programmer would want to be deprived of
them; neither would any user who enjoys the benefits of XPL, even if s/he doesn't
program.
 
BTW, I am not "Sir Robert Holmgren". Could we drop that? Thanks.



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