From: Mike R. Manzano (alephx01_at_mac.com)
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 18:42:28 PST
You can do some of the gestures from the Newton on the Mac. It's
essentially the same engine, and it even shares some of the same easter
eggs. Inserting/removing spaces works the same (v and upside-down-v
gestures) as well as scrubbing out to erase. Highlight and drag to the
clipboard is not an HWR thing, but an OS thing. Wouldn't actually be
hard to do that for the whole system, regardless of mouse or pen.
On Mar 27, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Michael Wittmann wrote:
>
> Are you saying that you can highlight a word and "slash" upward to make
> it all CAPS? Can you put the V under disconnected words to bring them
> together? Can you highlight and drag to the edge to put things on the
> clipboard? The last two are totally indispensable gestures (among many
> -
> scratching out being the third) that make the Newton OS different from
> all other platforms. I doubt you can correct a miswritten letter by
> writing over it, like on the Newton, because you can't see the letters
> on the Wacom. So how much of the Newton OS are you using? If it's just
> the HWR, that's a huge deal, but I'm curious about the rest.
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