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This looks superb -- inspired by MPW?
by bonaldi 14y ago
This looks superb -- inspired by MPW?
- trogdoro 14y agoNever used MPW nor seen it in action, but many people have told me there are similarities. Being able to type stuff and double-click on it, I think. I'm working on making a page that highlights similarities between Xiki and various tools / paradigms.
- salgernon 14y agoOne neat feature: you could specify regions of a window (text document) as a separate file, so you could perform redirections to and from. Of the window was "Fred" you could, eg: Echo "main() {}" > {Fred}.$ cc -o mything {Fred}.$ (Of note, the actual syntax included high bit MacRoman characters, so you were actually using the "section" glyph rather than $)
- kabdib 14y agoMPW's unification of a command shell and an edit window took a little getting used to, but it was really, really useful once you learned the single trick. (Not to keep you in suspense: the ENTER key just inserted a newline, while COMMAND+ENTER executed the current line, or whatever was currently selected). To this day I miss this ability on command shells. On Windows there is lame cut-and-paste (and it's disabled by default). It feels like cement galoshes, all that dead text just sitting there on the screen, useless and flat.