- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
- cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>, <Jose.Kahan@inrialpes.fr>
Hi, I wrote the unix version keyboard shortcuts, and based them on a set of shortcuts I was used to for emacs, which was more or less a standard in Unix shells and editors. There is a help page which explains how to configure your keyboard shortcuts, but one thing you can do is copy the cut and paste lines from teh windows file into your unix keybnoard file - they use windows-standard ctrl-X, ctrl-C, ctrl-V. For deleting a table column you only need to select a cell in the column, but it looks like you have found that. Because Amaya is a structure editor to start with it will need to be able to select non-contiguous ranges to select table columns - Jose will know how hard or easy that will be. Cheers Charles McCN On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello, I just used Amaya for the first time and would like to offer some feedback. I'm using version 4.3.2 on FreeBSD 4.3. I sought out Amaya because I was looking for a visual HTML editor that works on FreeBSD, and Amaya is one of the very few that fits that bill. Thanks for your work on it and thanks for donating to the web community! I like the Annotation feature (I've been exploring Annozilla as well) and I like the unique "Transform" function. Now here are some suggestions to improve it: * I wanted to delete an empty table column, but I couldn't find a way to visually select it to use the "delete column" function. * The method of adding table columns is unintuitive. I'm fond of the Dreamweaver method (using contextual menus) of manipulating tables. * The shortcut keys for "cut" "copy" and "paste" make no sense to me. Why not use the standard "x" and "v" keys instead? * After deleting the first column in a 3 column table by accident, I used the "undo" command to fix it. Instead of correcting the mistake, Amaya very slow re-rendered the table..with about 20 columns. At least for now, it looks like it's going to be faster for me to manipulate table designs by hand. I'll check in with a future version of Amaya and see how it it's coming along. Thanks, -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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