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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca ( John Henders )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Message-ID: <H.wMPgaLVNJ5E@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- Subject: Re: Official Keycode Guidelines of Atari
- References: Re: Official Keycode Guidelines of Atari
- Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:36:38 -0700
- Lines: 43
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- In <1992Sep14.142048.18305@cs.ruu.nl>, Annius Groenink writes:
- >
- >
- >I suppose you've all heard it: Atari has official key code guidelines.
- >Of course, we couldn't expect them to come up with REASONABLE propositions:
- >
- > code operation objection
- > ^H Replace ??? Never heard of this. I thought it was
- >
- > ^R Replace
- > ^T Replace Next
-
- I have to agree this one makes no sense. The only use I've seen
- in various text editors I've used for ^h is unmark block. Speaking
- of which, did they suggest keycodes for block start and block end.
- It seems half the editors out there make you use the mouse to mark
- blocks, with no support for keyboard alternatives. ;-(
-
- >
- > ^W Close Window Well God D******* why this? I thought ^W was
- > cycle windows and (maybe only in Germany, but after all that is
- > the leading ST territory)
-
- German editors are the only ones I've seen with cycle windows. I
- like the alt-1, alt-2 etc to pick windows better, myself.
-
- > ^U was close window. OK, I implemented ^U for close window as well as
- > ^W, and put cycle windows on Alt-Q. (With all possible dangers of someone
- > accidentally using Control-Q :)
-
- I'd rethink alt-q for cycle windows. There's a lot of editors that
- use alt-q for quit.
- While it's nice to see a standard defined, with so many gem based text
- editors out there already with totally incompatable keymaps, I think the
- best thing to do is follow the new standard, but allow for remapping, like
- Tempus and a few other editors do.
-
-
- --
- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- I think your "evolutionary scale" needs an adjustment. Either
- that, or you've got your thumb on it. -> (lefty@apple.com)
-
-