some observations

[Dann Sheridan]

Jake:

Is there some place were the I/O shortcuts are documented?

-Dann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Savin" <jake@userland.com>
To: <radio-outline@userland.com>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: some observations


> 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
>
>