The Sinclair QL Forum

tofro wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:48 pmThe most annoying thing IMHO is that uEmacs warps the pointer to some unexpected place if you select a menu item. I keep searching my mouse pointer in that program.

Isn't it similar in QD? When you click on an item with the mouse from the editing window, you first have to look back at where you were and put the pointer there again.

RalfR wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:09 pm

tofro wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:48 pmThe most annoying thing IMHO is that uEmacs warps the pointer to some unexpected place if you select a menu item. I keep searching my mouse pointer in that program.

Isn't it similar in QD? When you click on an item with the mouse from the editing window, you first have to look back at where you were and put the pointer there again.

Not if you WAKE QD, either via a wake hotkey or by DOing the window if partially buried. Also, I find the sprite cursor easier to see than the traditional one.

QD is great, though there are a few bugs and niggles. A pity it wasnt developed further.

The only other editor I use is DP's The Editor, special addition. It doesnt do macros, as in recording keystrokes and playing back keystrokes, but it is programmable, so I often use it for cleaning up code or text that comes from other worlds.

Full disclosure: My setup is SMSQ/E in high colour and a large screen and more memory than I normally ever need. On a BBQL Id probably use something like Jan Bredenbeek's QED. On a QL with 512Kb+, The Editor. With PE, QD.

pjw wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:53 pm

RalfR wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:09 pm

tofro wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:48 pmThe most annoying thing IMHO is that uEmacs warps the pointer to some unexpected place if you select a menu item. I keep searching my mouse pointer in that program.

Isn't it similar in QD? When you click on an item with the mouse from the editing window, you first have to look back at where you were and put the pointer there again.

Not if you WAKE QD, either via a wake hotkey or by DOing the window if partially buried.

I meant a menu item of QD, not outside QD.

RalfR wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:09 pm

tofro wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:48 pmThe most annoying thing IMHO is that uEmacs warps the pointer to some unexpected place if you select a menu item. I keep searching my mouse pointer in that program.

Isn't it similar in QD? When you click on an item with the mouse from the editing window, you first have to look back at where you were and put the pointer there again.

Nope. If you click on a menu item in QD2 (or any other reasonably behaving PE program), the pointer stays where it is. If you do the same in µEmacs, it can be just about anywhere but not where you expect it to be.

Hmm, if I move the pointer (cursor pointer) in QD to the menu bar, it disappears from the text, so how do you remember where it was?

place the cursor with the mouse
use the shortcuts F x, CF x ,Shift x for commands

Markus

Well, then menu items that can be clicked with the mouse don't really make much sense.