MGR - I have some suggestions - can we talk?

[Bradley Smith]

I have some things for those of you out there using MGR.

First of all, I love it - those of you who think you might want to
try it, should.  The programming interface to the screen and mouse
is so much more natural.  The only thing is I still need the windowing
for is DOS-73 graphics,  but  text DOS-73 stuff runs (sort of).
I am working ontrying to figure out if ua works with out the window
driver installed(did I miss something here, appears not to).

But on with the disccusion. Below are some thoughts/suggestions
open that I would like to here more about.

1 -  First of all I took the select/pty that came with MGR and 
     put it in the socket code (yes the select was much cleaner
     than my way, but I not afraid to say it!).  So now I have
     MGR code working with alex's socket (UNIX domain).  Makes
     using code for both easier (yes there is now code in the
     new select for sockets as well).

2 -  added function key definition to set_emacs (maybe we should make
     this a 'BBB1' ifdef.

3 -  I would like to add a menu item to the reshape to create a new
     window. Sometimes I have the whole window used and want another
     window, I guess one could use 'left-control(next to space) n' or
     'left-control(next to space) N'. But a menu item would make it
     more complete.

4 -  Maybe make the newwindow (when using mouse) allow different
     emulators (see next note).  Currently you get a 'MGR' term.

5 -  I am working on taking the 'Vtem' source and making it work
     under MGR (I did that).  but I want to make it look like other
     things then just a vt100 (maybe via terminfo or a driver that
     you write and recompile in).  Any way if this gets working
     I might want to have this come up if selecting a new window.
     FYI: I am working on saving a buffer like xterm so you can
     go back on it (with scroll bar and all).

So what else is going on?

brad smith
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Bradley Smith
Telecommunications Solutions Development
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 
201-949-0090 att!holin!bes or bes at holin.ATT.COM