Quick Tips and Key Bindings for Squeak

• Save Your Work Often Squeak is buggy. Squeak is even more buggy on the solaris machines. It may freeze on you, and you WILL loose all your data up to your last save point. To save all your work, click on the desktop, and select save.

• You may find it easier to run Squeak off of your local machine. There is no difference between files created with Squeak on a Windows machine and files created with Squeak on a Unix machine.

• Assignment in Squeak is done either with '_' or ':='. Squeak interprets the underscore as a left arrow. The ':=' is similar to Pascal's method of assignment. Note: Squeak does not understand '<-' for assignment, you must use the underscore.

Key Bindings

	System Wide
	alt-c	Copies highlighted text to the buffer
	alt-v	Pastes from the buffer to your current window
	shift-_	This is Squeak's assignment operator. It will be displayed on screen as a left arrow, <- .
	alt-d	do it Reads in selected text and runs it This is mostly used in the Workspace window when you want to interact with an object
	alt-p	print it This is the same as do it except that it will print what was returned from the last line in the Wokspace
	alt-s	Accept the current text The text will be saved for your current session only. If you do not do this before changing panes, you will be prompted whether you want to save the text, or abandon the changes. This is mostly used in the Browser when you want to enter a class definition or method.
	alt-i	inspect it

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