Re: FullWrite on shelves

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From: Peter Steele
Date: Mon, 16 May 1988 11:06

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I haven't got the official FullWrite release yet (I'm one of those
pre-paid customers), but I have had some chance to play around with
the pre-release version. There are comments that it is much more
intuitive than Word, and that may well be. I unfortunately found
the pre-release version *much* too slow, especially for larger
documents, and too buggy to do ant serious work in. However, I
did notice that one particular command certainly is not more
intuitive than Word. In Word, shift-arrow is used to extend a
selection, in the same way shift can be used in many other ways
in other program to extend a selection. Why in the world did
FullWrite decide to use cmd-arrow. That is not standard in the
Mac user interface.

I'm prepared to switch, but I sure hope the release version is faster
and can handle large documents better...

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
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Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves
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Date: 16 May 88 11:06:53 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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