MC> As a "mobile professional", manuals are useless to me
 As a stay-at-home amateur, manuals are useful to me.  Staring at
 a macro and wondering why the bleep it isn't working correctly
 is annoying.  Having to flip into and out of online help makes
 that worse, especially if several commands are possible causes
 of the problem.  Having a manual with the information required is
 useful.  One can even  print out the macro and study it
 with the computer off, wherever one might be, in hopes of
 tracking down the flaw.
MC> ...  and tear up quickly after the first 50,000 miles.
 One of the reasons I wanted real new manuals: I've *used* mine,
 and they show it, with the cover having come off and so on.
MC> Personally, I'd like all software companies to put more effort
  > into highly usable and complete online help, and save the
  > expense of "weighty tomes" which collect dust on my bookshelf.
 Options.  Many places give you the option of buying a printed
 manual, or printing your own copy from an on-disk one they ship,
 along with the program and its online help.  Since the manual
 is 90% or more the same as the online help, it's not like it
 requires a huge separate investment to do.
MC> On the core functionality front, I think
  > SemWare has knocked itself out on 2.5.
 I like the *editor*.  It's the concomitant parts that could be
 improved, like a real manual, not a skimpy outline pointing you
 to an online help, especially one where all the commands didn't
 manage to get into it.
MC> Restore State macro is a very nice "slim-line" alternative to Projects
 Tho its default hooks are off.  Only called on Exit() or
 SaveAllAndExit()?  Guess what: I never Exit(), because I
 couldn't get that command to handle archive-wiping for me.
 I always QuitFile(), singly or serially:
          QuitFile()
  Redux: if FileChanged() SaveFile() endif QuitFile() goto Redux
proc OnFileQuit()
    string ThisFile[128]=CurrFileName()
    integer attribute
    attribute=FileExists(CurrFileName())
    if CurrName()"$reply" and (attribute & _archive_)
    Dos("@attrib/q -a "+ThisFile,_dont_prompt_) endif
end
 The archive-bit wiper is hooked to _on_file_quit_
 and _on_abandon_editor_.  I had to add another
 exit command to use Restore, which I seldom do.
          ExecMacro("State -s") PressKey()
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