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Reply-To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>
Date: 20 Dec 1996 11:06:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 20 Dec 1996 13:09:47 +0100
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> Colin Rafferty (craffert@spspme.ml.com) wrote:
>> The new user should have text-mode by default, because it has the
>> capabilities that he is expecting.

> No, I'd rather like having an option in the `Options' menu to that
> effect, like a checkbox named `Text mode in *scratch*', or some moren
> understandable construct.

Only if it is text by default.  What we want to have is an editor that a
new user can sit down and use.  Setting options comes later.

-- 
Colin Rafferty
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"In our society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
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