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- From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Arrow keys & modifiers (was: Think C is (notso) Great)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.144427.28358@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
- References: <de19-220792055815@mac41-pg2.umd.edu> <1992Jul22.141021.20135@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <hammett.711843216@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:44:27 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- hammett@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Tim Hammett) writes:
- >k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) 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. (... 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.
-
- Argh. No, I wrote it backwards. My brain is indeed scrambled.
-
- >Inside Mac says:
- >"Holding down the Command key while pressing an arrow key should move the
- >insertion point to the appropriate edge of the window.
-
- In ThC, cmd-up and cmd-down do nothing. cmd-left and cmd-right move
- one word.
-
- >"The Option key is reserved as a "semantic modifier" key. The application
- >determines what the semantic units are.
-
- In ThC, option-up and option-down move to the beginning and end.
- option-left and option-right move to the beginning and end of the line.
- --
- Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
- I suppose ya don't think I was run over by a streetcar!
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