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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!reks.uia.ac.be!derijkp
- From: derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk)
- Subject: Re: Improved filer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.094457.6298@reks.uia.ac.be>
- Organization: U.I.A.
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- References: <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:44:57 GMT
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- David Alan Gilbert (gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be> derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk) writes:
- :
- : <stuff deleted>
- :
- : >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
- : --
- : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- : - David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk - G7FHJ@GB7CRG -
- : ------(Programmers don't sleep - they just park their heads)-------------------
- This is indeed a problem, partly. Most shortcuts only have to be "grabbed"
- when one or more files are selected. Otherwise the key can be passed on to
- other applications. ^W to select files does indeed pose this problem. Well,
- maybe make of that one a menu item.
-
- Peter
-
- PS: How about using ^I to get an infobox on the selected files.
-