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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Arrow keys & modifiers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.184100.9639@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:41:00 +1200
- References: <12JUL199213052196@uhdvx3> <1992Jul20.155359.9503@cimage.com><de19-22079205581 <D88-JWA.92Jul23022040@dront.nada.kth.se>
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- In article <D88-JWA.92Jul23022040@dront.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- [Just realized that my previous posting is mostly a repeat of what Tim
- has said :-}]
-
- > 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 :-)
-
- What do you mean "almost all"? I know M#$#%s@ft Word does this, but what
- else? MacWrite II certainly is close to the IM4 description in its use
- of option and command.
-