HS> Another disappointment was the lack of a good manual...
  > The supplement you've given us is in my opinion a
  > devaluation of the total package...
 What, you didn't like that skinny 12-page booklet?  What's worse
 is that it's only a summary; for more info you're supposed to
 look at the online help.  But then you get that bit in READ.ME:
 *  Additional Features not mentioned in the online Help
 That section is over 200 lines long.  I really expected full
 manuals, for the price.  Online Help is nice (especially the
 new search ability), but it doesn't replace being able to
 have a manual open beside you when trying to do something.
 Flipping back and forth into Help, or having a Help clipping
 in another window, doesn't cut it.  With the cover having come
 off my Macro manual, a replacement would have been nice.
 Other changes also are of note.  The menu-display of keys.
 | Open...            ||
 | Insert...          |  2.5>>| Insert...           |
 Keynames touch the right border now, whereas the appearance
 was symmetrical in 2.0, with a 1-space margin.  But text
 *cannot* touch the right margin.  That affects some of
 my keys, which I had defined as:
    "Mark W&ords          ", PushKey()
 The macro was in a loaded-as-needed external file, so the key name
 didn't show up automatically, but I could mke it do so easily.
 Now I can't; the best that workaround produces is like this,
                               so I had to sillily cheat to get
 | Mark Column          |  a correct display, and define a
 | Mark Words        |  place-holder proc in the UI to
 | Mark to EOL     |  assign to the key to get it to
                               display the proc in the external
 macro anthology, the proc having been made public to call it.
proc A_G()
     inGJS3() ExecMacro("MarkWordContinue") outGJS3()
end
    "Mark W&ords"               ,   A_G()
    A_G()
 Video is also "stickier", I notice.  I use some on-screen ruler
 macros that display under the cursor line.  Used to be that
 moving the cursor onto the ruler line would make the ruler
 vanish.  Now much more video movement is required.  The ruler
 scrolls, the cursor can pass thru it, and it still survives.
 Had to add a key to update the video to clear them.
 I also thought it odd that SemWare didn't update many
 of the files it sent out.  HOOKS.DOC, for example,
 still cites a SortIt proc with keydefs such as
         Sortit(11,13)                // Extension
         Sortit(17,17) Sortit(18,18)  // Date
 which worked in 2.0, but of course the display format has
 changed since then, so the column numbers are different:
 .---------------- c:\msg\*.* ----------------.
 | \..               1-01-80   12:00 am|
 | 401-sep   txt    33102   8-31-95    9:33 pm|
   ....:....1....:....2....:....4....:....5....:....6
 .--------------- c:\tek\new\odd\*.* ---------------.
 | ..                  1/01/80 12:00 am ----d- |
 | 200       cfg      6069  9/16/95  3:28 pm ------ |
 | 250       cfg      6067  9/17/95  1:59 am ------ |
 Something else is also apparently different, since even after
 changing the column assignments, I can't get the list-sorting
 macro to work reliably in 2.50.  Perhaps it's my setting of
PickFileFlags           = _add_dirs_ | _dirs_at_top_
 that's confusing things.  I *do* like being able to delete files
 from the Recent and Open lists, and the addition of View and and
 AgainReverse options to Find and RepeatFind.
 -- SPEED 2.00 #1019: Here there be dragons.
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