[Oberon] Re: selecting all text in a viewer

[Chris Burrows]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch 
>[mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Duke Normandin
>Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 6:18 AM
>To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>Cc: crglur at gmail.com
>Subject: Re: [Oberon] Re: selecting all text in a viewer
>
>
>I _didn't_ realize that if the text was larger than what could 
>_all_ fit in a "Viewer", that I had to make a copy to "see" 
>the bitter end. I thought that the "copy" was a destination 
>viewer or something. 

"copy" in this context is equivalent to using a "split-screen" editor. Any
changes you make in one window are reflected in the other.

>I did exactly like Chris Burrows 
>recommended - I MR one character at the beginning of the text 
>in the 1st Viewer; I MR a single character at the bitter end 
>in the 2nd (copy) Viewer. &^%$#$-all happened! I kluxed till 
>the bloody cows came home, and then threw the friggin mouse 
>out the window, and went fishing :)
>

Don't say I didn't warn you - I couldn't get it to work on my Windows PlugIn
Oberon either. Maybe I lost something in the translation. When your Reiser
book finally arrives you might have to return it and ask for your money back
;-)

P.S. I hate letting machines get the better of me (and don't enjoy fishing)
so just had another go while writing this. Eureka! I got it to work by
holding down the shift key when I selected the text in the second viewer. It
actually highlighted all of the selected text in both viewers.

>
>Yep! I missed the boat somewheres - and _that's a fact! BTW, 
>have you ever tried Modula-2? I'm kinda looking at GNU M2. ;)
>

Most Oberon / Component Pascal developers I encounter once used Modula-2. I
really liked it at the time and there were one or two things I missed when
first making the changeover but I haven't felt any need to go back since.
However, that might change if I decide to do some iPad development as there
is an M2 compiler in development that you are supposed to be able to use
with Cocoa.

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2