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- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 94 14:06 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: Re: Volume
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.820965@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Precedence: bulk
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- rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu said:
- >Volume on this mailing list is getting a little high. Can we stick to the
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- Yes, EVERYONE PLEASE DIGEST YOUR MAIL.
-
- Don't send multiple messages, combine them into one longer message.
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- The current topic is the app-defs file.
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- abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk said:
- >
- >I think it would be about equal. In my experience preferences are split
- >without half the people not having a clue whats going on, and the remaining
- >half equally split to what they prefer. Until you've worked in a point to
- >type environment you can't really understand its benefits.
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- No thanks.
-
- >If its provided in object code, and assuming that the interfaces match OK,
- >you wouldn't have to read his code, you'd just call it. C or assembler
- >would be the ideal languages to write such multi-language code in.
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- I prefer pseudo-code. Then I can write it to best fir the way my library
- works. It also has commercial reasons - I will not be able to include
- someone else's object code.
-
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- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
- >
- >As for double-clicking highlighting `words', I point out the very
- >simple technique XTerm uses to define what a `word' is: just have a
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- Selection of words in editable objects is not simple to implement - so I
- suspect very few apps will and therefore cannot be part of the standard. At
- least not at this stage.
-
- Bye,
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