some observations

[Jake Savin]

Hi Dave, comments inline...

On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 10:29  PM, Dave Liebreich wrote:

> 1) what is the keyboard shortcut to expand an item in the buddy list?  I
>    tried <CR>, ALT-O RET, F2, SPACE - nothing other than 
> double-clicking the
>    buddy line.  Oddly enough, once a "buddy" is expanded to an outline,
>    expand-all-subheads and collapse work just fine.

Try the * key on the numeric keypad. If you're using a laptop, often 
Fn+8 will get you the same thing.

> 2) CTL-I on a link item in the buddies window produces an error >>Can't 
> do
>    "wp.getselect" because the target window is not in edit mode, or 
> does not
>    contain editable text.<<

Ctrl-I is the shortcut for making some text italic. Radio won't let you 
italicize headings in the Buddies window because the window is read-only.

> 3) I can't cut-n-paste parts of a line - I have to select the entire 
> item
>    (what is the preferred term?), copy (CTL-C), go to the notepad 
> (CTL-Y),
>    paste (CTL-V), then select the text.

Again, you can't select specific text because the buddies window is a 
read-only window -- it always stays in bar-cursor mode. While that may 
not be ideal, there's no quick fix for this.

> 4) radio crashed 5 or 6 times during the paste-to-notepad part.  I'm a
>    horrible person, and I did not save the crash info.  If you 
> investigate
>    and can't reproduce, let me know what I need to send in.

If you see a specific sequence of actions that cause the crash, please 
describe them in an email to the list. (Thanks.)

> 6) I did not know that the right-click menu in a radio outline had a 
> "post
>    to weblog" option.  Wow.

It's new as of a couple of days ago.

> 7) Even though I'm using an iBook (running OS X 10.1.3) and a win2k box 
> for
>    most of my work, I still have not yet gotten the hang of this mouse
>    thingy.  Maybe it's because I grew up with teletypes and computers 
> with
>    keyboards only, or maybe its because I learned to type with 
> WordPerfect
>    and Emacs . . . enough rambling.  There's a trend to the above
>    "observations" and it's all about being a user who is not used to
>    thinking in terms of windows.

Almost everything you might want to do with the outliner is possible to 
do with the keyboard. Check out the Outlines and Scripts section of 
Brent's Time-Savers page: (it's the 3rd section)

http://inessential.com/tips/timesavers.php

I hope these comments help,

-Jake