[REBOL] Re: vconsole error report: console interface features nitpicking
From: ammoncooke::yahoo::com at: 15-Oct-2001 17:52
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Cunliffe" <[jasonic--nomadics--org]>
To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: [REBOL] vconsole error report: console interface features
nitpicking
> > just type for example(in windows) into vconsole: v-con/font/name:
> "fixedsys"
> >
> > ..and the font will change.
> >
> > In the next version there will be little prefs gui for changing the
fonts
> Nice :)
>
> > Also,noticed that sometimes lose the first character typed
> > in the console.
>
> vconsole by default correctly positions the cursor one space away from the
> >> prompt, but when one clicks somewhere else [for example to copy a line
of
> code above] and then clicks back it loses that space. Minor but
distracting.
> One feature I like very much in REBOL's own shell is that when one does a
> 'paste' it knows to put the paste buffer directly into the current [last]
> prompt.
>
> At the moment vconsole behaves more like a passive text file. Paste
> functions wherever the cursor actually is - ie has no shell console
> meaning.. Presumably this will be fixed as part of the next major vconsole
> essential feature: multi-line pasting ?
Wait! Isn't Passive Text File all that VI, VIM, & Emacs is?
Thanks!!
Ammon
