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- From: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Improved filer
- Message-ID: <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:24:53 GMT
- References: <marlow.723896990@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk> <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be>
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- In <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be> derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk) writes:
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- <stuff deleted>
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- >Key shortcuts would be very handy. I believe this has been suggested allready by
- >someone. I think it would indeed be easiest to have the same conventions as
- >used in other RISC OS programs.
- > i.e. ^C copy
- > ^V move
- > ^Z clear selection
- > ^X delete (preferably with a confirmation, something like :
- > Are you sure you want to delete all those files? )
- > ^E rename (edit name)
- > and maybe some others.
-
- >A wildcard (^W ?) select would be nice. And some kind of name translation as
- >well.
-
- This brings up an interesting point - how are you going
- to do hotkeys for a window which doesnt normaly have the
- input focus - I have the same problem at the moment. I know
- I can put a grab keys window at the back and things like that,
- but if everything did that every key would be used multiply.
-
- >Peter
-
- Dave
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