[Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

[Robert Lauriston]

I can't remember a Microsoft product release with similarly serious
bugs that still weren't fixed eight years or six major releases later.

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> So all-in-all, it's just Adobe emulating Microsoft.
> (What does he mean by that?) Back in 2006 while I was contracting for an engineering firm and ordered to use only Word "so the engineers could correct my work." (Ptooey!) I remember an incident where I used Word's paragraph tag-method to tag bulleted text.
> I was on page 125 or so, tagged something bullet and voila!, every bullet in the book disappeared, yet all "bulleted text" was still tagged that way. I tried everything I knew to fix things but to no avail.
> But, ah, thank heavens for Ctrl-Z. Everything returned, except for the last bullet that I worked on. I don't remember how I "fixed" things that day, but I did post a message on the tech-wrl e-mail list, asking how could Microsoft let this happen.
> The reply / replies were basically, "Because Microsoft CAN (let this happen) because it doesn't matter to them since we're just peons."
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>     On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 4:21 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
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>  It's an artifact of the nonstandard, buggy UI Adobe layered on top of
> the legacy FrameMaker code in FM9. The API or whatever that transmits
> the keystrokes from the new layer to the legacy code occasionally
> stops working. ///