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Weeeell,

I don't use the pointer system. It's pretty much the worst WIMP system ever devised to torture man. I do use pointers, though. My new video card is all about being able to use pointers far more easily. As simple as an X/Y register.

I'm looking at porting something over. Something in C. The list I made is what it would basically function like. It should work with other languages too.

But anyway.

Dave wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:48 pm <>I don't use the pointer system. It's pretty much the worst WIMP system ever devised to torture man. <>

Youre utterly WRONG! *

* What can be claimed without evidence can be repudiated without evidence.

Hi,

Its the only WIMP system for QL, all other attempts have not worked as good as Extended Environment.

But the integration between, command line or S*BASIC is the best I have seen on 256K ram.

But use a larger machine running 32Gb ram, 40Mhz, I never run out of ram.

RalfR wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 6:42 pm We just spoke about QD ;) .

But the original (sub) thread IMHO was about MicroEmacs.

Dave wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:48 pm Weeeell,

I don't use the pointer system.

There's absolutely no need to use the pointer environment with MicroEmacs, except that it additionally uses the Extended Environment and so requires it. But you can (as I do) use Emacs just with keyboard shortcuts (and commands, <META><X>).

BTW: Can anyone of the hardware guys (and girls – are their any?) implement a (an) keyboard (keyboard extension) with a real Meta key (see the German Wikipedia article , picture of the keyboard). On all other machines you must press the <ESC> key, release it and then press the key (a Meta key, which works as CTRL would be nice).