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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: Arrow keys & modifiers (was: Think C is (notso) Great)
- In-Reply-To: hammett@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:13:36 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:20:40 GMT
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- > hammett@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Tim Hammett) writes:
-
- >I'd like ThC to join with the rest of the Mac world, in which
- >cmd-arrowkey means "go this way for one word/paragraph/page" and
- >option-arrowkey means "go this way to the end of the line/document."
- >ThC has this backwards. (And BBEdit has it backwards vertically but not
- >horizontally. Turns my brain to scrambled cheese.)
-
- I don't use Think C (I use MPW), but it sounds from your description
- like Think C has it right.
-
-
- NO ! NO ! NO !
-
- Almost ALL programs now have option as go-as-far-as-possible and
- command as go-next-neighbour. This includes popular word processors
- as well :-)
-
- How about assignable keys ?
-
- Inside Mac says:
- ------
-
- Volume, Page ?
-
- Of course, under MPW, the key bindings can be reconfigured to whatever you
- like (plug, plug). :-)
-
- Yes, a very good feature. As they can in Alpha, by the way ;-)
-
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- Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
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