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In article <589@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
> I believe that the biggest deficiency in MacroMaker is the documentation.
> If the person that wrote the QuicKeys manual had written the MacroMaker
> manual, people might find out that it's a lot more useful than it looks.
> -- 
> David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
> "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno

It's true: you can't beat free system software.  But as an occasional
consultant to users on our big campus Mac network, I must admit that
MacroMaker seems to generate FAR MORE incompatibilities with esoteric
software than does QuicKeys.  (By esoteric I don't just mean developmental-
semibuggyware, but also products initially designed on other mac 
configurations, and applications/inits/cdevs which, though playing by
the rules, play "fast and loose" with them instead of conservatively.)

If Macromaker improves your life, go with it.  But if you don't really
use it much, and your mac is prone to occasional inexplicable crashes,
trash it. 

[Back to the "close-window" example.  The original poster was offered the
advice of using cmd-W, and commented that this doesn't seem to work in all
applications.  To him or her (I can't remember the gender): true, this is
a function of the Menu manager; so things like the Chooser, which has no
menu, won't respond to it. Any application (i. e. thing with a menu) which
doesn't respond to it but which nonetheless has a CLOSE item in its FILE
menu can be modified with ResEdit to include a cmd-key equivalent for
that menu item.]



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