When in the debugger console, there are a couple of issues:
- Paging help information isn't obvious (thought it was impossible when I started this issue)
If you type "help *", you're asked to "...press SPACE continue, ESC skip...", you have to send a a "space" on its own in the box and send it to get this to work (took me a while to figure that out), and "ESC" does not exit the help, but that may not be an issue, but maybe the text could be update. Although this sounds obvious, because of the way focus works (see below) it's difficult to do as you have to move the mouse to the prompt box, click it, then press space, then press enter, then repeat the mouse/space/send action for what is intuitively "just pressing space".
- The prompt box isn't auto selected
This is a big one for me, I can't seem to get to the prompt easily without using the mouse to click somewhere in the input box.
Whilst doing a debugging session in the command prompt, it would be extremely helpful if the prompt was always reselected for input if you send a command from it, e.g. type "help *", then your cursor is immediately active, and you can type something else without having to move my hand to the mouse, click it, move hand back to keyboard.
I'm constantly forgetting and typing the next command only to realise it's not got focus, so nothing happened.
At least with the auto selection / focus on prompt, that would make the "help *" problem a little easier, as the interaction with the paging and pressing keys in an input field are conflicting for attention. I think pressing space and enter, and immediately being able to do that again is better than the current mouse/click/space/send sequence.
Many thanks for the excellent fork of AppleWin, it's a live saver for my apple2 dev!
When in the debugger console, there are a couple of issues:
If you type "help *", you're asked to "...press SPACE continue, ESC skip...", you have to send a a "space" on its own in the box and send it to get this to work (took me a while to figure that out), and "ESC" does not exit the help, but that may not be an issue, but maybe the text could be update. Although this sounds obvious, because of the way focus works (see below) it's difficult to do as you have to move the mouse to the prompt box, click it, then press space, then press enter, then repeat the mouse/space/send action for what is intuitively "just pressing space".
This is a big one for me, I can't seem to get to the prompt easily without using the mouse to click somewhere in the input box.
Whilst doing a debugging session in the command prompt, it would be extremely helpful if the prompt was always reselected for input if you send a command from it, e.g. type "help *", then your cursor is immediately active, and you can type something else without having to move my hand to the mouse, click it, move hand back to keyboard.
I'm constantly forgetting and typing the next command only to realise it's not got focus, so nothing happened.
At least with the auto selection / focus on prompt, that would make the "help *" problem a little easier, as the interaction with the paging and pressing keys in an input field are conflicting for attention. I think pressing space and enter, and immediately being able to do that again is better than the current mouse/click/space/send sequence.
Many thanks for the excellent fork of AppleWin, it's a live saver for my apple2 dev!