[MacPerl] usability

[Karsten Meier <krstnmr@ibm.net>]

Usability

First let me say I'm very happy to have a tool
with such a UNIX inheritance like Perl on the Macintosh
and I'm impressed that the whole thing is working.

There are still some usabiltiy problems in MacPerl 5.14r4:

* Command-Point
If I have a script which is doing some input, and
break it with Command-Point, and restart it again,
it will not take any user input anymore.

* closing the MacPerl window:
If a script is running, or it was ended with command-point,
and I try to close the MacPerl window, it just beeps.

* if you run a program with standard-input, notice some error,
change to the editor, but forget to stop the script,
and want to rerun the script, the "script" menu is gone away.

I'm not sure about the best solution.
Many Macintosh Users have problems with 
the Unix-Concept of Standard-Input and Crtl-D.
Maybe the window should have a Button with the Label
"End-Of-Input".
Maybe the script menu should not disapear but change 
and have to entrys: "End of Input" and "Abort script"

* tabs in Editor are handled like a single space.

These are all no problems for expert users, 
but beginers get very confused about them.

Karsten Meier


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