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- From: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
- Subject: Re: Human Interface questions, specific functionality
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.225925.5480@qualcomm.com>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:59:25 GMT
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- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
- > 1. Control-H generates the same ASCII character as the forward delete
- > key on the extended keyboard. Should my application perform a delete
- > (i.e. Clear) when Control-H is pressed or should I trap that event?
-
- There are similar equivalences for some other keys.
-
- I think you should let it be a forward delete; I mean, it's not like you
- have big plans for control-h, right? Might come in handy for somebody
- who didn't have an extended keyboard, too.
-
- Other people disagree vehemently with this, but I think they just didn't
- get to play outside when they were kids.
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- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Yes, I'm still working on Eudora and it's still free.
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