Re: [MacPerl] usability

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Karsten Meier <krstnmr@ibm.net> writes:
>* 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.

Interesting. I'll look into this.

>* 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.

The fact that you can't close the console window while MacPerl runs is
deliberate. I'll argue that it's a feature.

The the window can't be closed if the script was terminated is a bug, though.

>* 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.

Yes. You cannot run two scripts simultaneously. Stop the first script first.

>* tabs in Editor are handled like a single space.

Yes, I know. This is a well known deficiency that simply has no chance to ever
make it higher on the to-do list of my life.

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

I'd say that the tabulator annoyance is a problem even for experts. That
doesn't mean that I'm likely to do anything about it, though.

Matthias

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