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In article <8671@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
>It sure was a big a disappointment to me that OW3 didn't bring any real
>cmdtool/shelltool enhancements. Given how much time one spends in a terminal
>emulator, this is a bad place to cut corners.


It sure was a big disappointment to me too, for other reasons.  Cmdtool
scrolling is just a pig.  To wit,
 * if you have lines longer than the width of the screen, and scroll
   backwards, the scrolling is jerky - the bigger the line, the bigger
   the jerk.
 * if the cmdtool is partially obscured by another window, it takes
   100% of a SPARCstation-2 CPU to scroll 2 or 3 lines per second!
 * if you make the window full height and then reduce it to normal
   size, the cursor is off the screen at the bottom.

I am certainly no fan of Motif, but their cmdtool seems to handle
scrolling much more smoothly than Xview.  From all the miscellaneous junk
we see (1 pixel borders around windows that don't get refreshed, pieces of
dirt left around by cursors, keyboard focus jumping around by itself when
other windows are closed, etc) it looks like Xview has just been 
hacked and hacked and hacked (like much of the software I write! :-).

I hope when Sunsoft finally gets  SVR4 released, they will assign some
people to go through xview with a fine toothed comb, rewrite the crufty
stuff from scratch, if necessary, and fix all these nitty little problems.


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   Dave Kemp   dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil              "Pave the Bay!"
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