[Newbie] Dolphin Smalltalk Tutorial

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Apr 19 11:23:01 UTC 2000


"Michael_Chean" <Michael_Chean at email.msn.com> wrote:
> > One of the first things any newbie who _tries_ Cmd-Shift-W leans
> > is that it's awfully easy for your finger to slip off the Shift
> > key, in which case you've deleted what you're looking for.
> > The second thing a newbie learns is that it can take an extremely long
> time.
> 

Now if an experienced Squeaker, full of word-of-mouth knowledge, is
standing over this guy's shoulder, then they are likely to say "hit
alt-z" to get your text back.  And yet, how many tutorials think to
mention stuff like this?

Another thing to mention, is that it only works some of the time. 
People shouldn't get discouraged the first few times they try a search
against the system code, and come back without anything useful.


-Lex





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