Re: XyWrite Development

[LESLIE319@xxxxxxxx]

Annie Fisher to Kenneth Frank:
> Kenneth Frank: Your comments on other aspects of the caps-required mode codes
> were interesting, but did not address what happens when xpl macros try to
> enter modes directly as text: {mdnm} (expanded, of course) or when v4
> finds an entry like 19=SI,{,m,d,n,m,},CI in a .kbd file. (Btw, as for "If
> you were not in expanded mode, previously (XyIII) you could have done a CI
> for MD > and > changed your mode commands": Of course the reverse is true;
> this isn't.) > > Glad to know that the next upgrade will resolve "+" without ";" conflicts,
> but I never encountered the sequence before your msg saying that I'd
> "remarked about a problem that occurs when a macro attempts to insert a
`+'."
> In fact v4 seemed to be such an uncharted minefield of redefined functions
> that I never ran any macros before reverting to v3.
> > I brought up the UD and caps-required mode codes after you wrote
that I
> was > "really making a mistake, as one of the continuing efforts and
> improvements in successive Xy4 versions is making III+ XPL code run natively in Xy4." I
> can't say that I'm persuaded. I hope that the documentation that Tech
> Support is preparing will be what "Making the Transition" should have been
> in terms of custom configuration, including an overview.     --annie

To avoid surprises, I continue to write all XPL programs in 3+.
If they work in 3+ they _will_ work in 4, but not the reverse.

--Leslie--