Re: CT article (was: Re: [zzdev] "Mailboxes" is a misnomer)

[Benjamin Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@xxxxxx>]

Tuomas Lukka schrieb:
> > > GZigZag is probably (XXX???) the first system to implement such
> > > transpointing with beams: an earlier Xanadu client Pyxi by XXX
> > > shows transclusions by colors but does not do transpointing. The
> >
> > See Ted's ACM paper, "Xanalogical Media: Needed Now More Than Ever;"
> > search for "WHAT IT WILL TAKE" (near the bottom). There's a screenshot
> > of a working demo created at the University of Southampton by Ted an Ian Heath.
> >
> > Of course, you could say that they use LINES, not "beams," but that
> > would be *very* picky. Ted, anything to say about this?
> 
> No, I've seen that demo: it's not real transclusions, it's just lines with
> fixed beginnings and ends in the text. It's not *editable*.

Oh... I didn't get that from the text. ;-}

> By the way, TextCloud now works with FlobSet. ZZGraphics et al can now be
> retired.

Is it a known bug that mouse clicking and dragging does nothing but
creating new input cursors -- no cuts etc.? Or is it something with my system?

-b.