Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac

[Leonard Vanek]

In article <15372 at mordor.ARPA> jdb at mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) writes:
>
>User preferences vary, and I'm sure my opinion on them isn't shared
>by everyone.  My point, however, is that it is not sufficient to choose
>between a mouse interface and a dialog interface solely upon the type
>of output device.  I would prefer a command-line interface even on a
>bitmapped screen, and I suspect many other "power users" of UNIX would
>also.
>
The above point leads me to wonder about the use of the two
editors that come with the Mactintosh version of the Aztec C
compiler.

How many users of Aztec C (or any other Mac compiler that
offers the choice) use the vi-like Z editor or the
mouse-based Edit? 

I personally agree with John, that both options should be
retained -- regardless of the hardware. In fact, we at Geac
are designing a user interface that will have that very
property. We are trying to arrange it so that it is not
necessary to choose a priori which mode a user is operating
in, but allow the user to switch between input modes
depending on how easy each request is to express in each of
the modes.

Len
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