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[Dmitry <address@hidden>]

Hi Basile,

1) It still seems to me that "move the cursor" is very different from
"move and click the cursor". Since the user experience in most other
programs is such that just hovering over an object is enough to
display its properties in the status bar.

2) Thanks for the explanations of the two modes. Haven't found it in
the documentation yet, but again, all my previous user experience has
kept me from using multi-window intuitively.

As for rewind, I didn't really understand what exactly you meant by
"Is TeXmacs returning to the beginning of the file because your cursor
stayed there?"
In buffer mode, whatever I do, if I switch buffers / files, they
always rewind to the very beginning, If I open files in different
windows, then of course there is no rewind

Regards,
Dmitry.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:08 AM Basile Audoly <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Nothing inconsistent here: moving the cursor requires clicking and not just 
> hovering the mouse.
>
> > 1) At the very beginning I read in Help -> Getting started :
> >  Please move the cursor inside this piece of bold text. You will
> > observe a cyan box that appears around it
> > But when I hover over the bold text, the cyan frame does not appear.
> > It appears when I click on the text. And nothing changes in the status
> > bar until I click somewhere. Does it change somewhere in the settings?
>
> TeXmacs has two modes: one in which different files are loaded as buffers 
> in a single window. Another one where files are loaded as different 
> windows. The former is probably default in ubuntu, and the latter in macOS. 
> You can switch mode in the preferences (I forgot the details).
>
> I am not aware of any hotkey for switching between buffers/windows and I 
> miss it too. My recollection is that tabs are buggy in Qt and this is the 
> reason why they are not used.
>
> Is TeXmacs returning to beginning of the file because your cursor stayed 
> there? What happens is you move the cursor elsewhere and switch buffers 
> back and forth? I am not saying that what you get is normal behavior, I am 
> just trying to understand.
>
> Regards,
> Basile.
>
>
> > 2) I don't understand the navigation system. If I open several files,
> > then there are no tabs, the only way to switch between open files is
> > through the Go menu (is it possible to somehow enable tabs or at least
> > switch between files using hotkeys?). But the most inconvenient thing
> > is that if I switched to another file, then when I return, the
> > position where I was is not saved, and I get to the very beginning of
> > the file.
>


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  Dmitry