Hi Lex,

> No on uses it, and I blame the UI.  :)  Ideas?

    How about <ML> to select then interclick <MR>
    to bring up the a menu with submenus for alt-<0-9>.

    ;-)

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: Hidden Information


> Torge Husfeldt <torge.husfeldt at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find it much easier to use the special syntax
> >
> > beep<Object new beep>
> >
> > then select all, cmd-6 select Do it. done.
> >
>
> This is an extremely nice feature of Squeak, but the UI is obviously
> very confusing.  Does anyone have an idea how to do this better?
>
> It's not even the active text that is the best, IMHO.  It's the ability
> to link to methods, classes, class comments, and URL's.  This ability
> lets you make a little Swiki within each image.  It's a superb
> opportunity for documentation.  It's a natural step forward for
> Smalltalk, where nice code browsers are the norm anyway, but it is
> uniquely Squeak as far as I know.
>
> No on uses it, and I blame the UI.  :)  Ideas?
>
>
> Lex
>