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- From: rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Human factors in PC Gopher II
- Keywords: PC Gopher II
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.043111.1977@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 04:31:11 GMT
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- In watching a microlab full of folks use PC Gopher II more than once,
- I seem to observe a pattern: People don't know understand the
- distinction between closing a text window that's opened up,
- versus hopping back a menu level. Thus invariably they type
- Alt-F3 when they don't mean to. This of course closes their current
- Gopher session.
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- I'm not too familiar with Turbo Vision and its options, but would it
- be possible to make the keystroke one types consistent for closing
- a text window and for "hopping up" one level? In my opinion the
- Escape key would be a good choice.
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- /Rich Wiggins, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U
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