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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Proposal
- Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 01:33:14 -0600
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- Precedence: bulk
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- In <memo.253849@cix.compulink.co.uk>, you write:
-
- Okay, I'll start by saying that I like the proposal. I do have a few
- reservations/questions, though, below:
-
- [> Proposed Keyboard Shortcut Standard v3 31/05/94
- [> =================================================
- [>
- [> CTRL O - Open
- [> CTRL N - New
- [> CTRL W - Close Windows
- [> Shift CTRL W - Close All Windows
- [> CTRL TAB - Cycle Windows
- [> CTRL S - Save
- [> Shift+CTRL S - Save As...
- [> CTRL P - Print
- [> Shift CTRL P - Printer Configuration, Page Layout
- [> CTRL Q - Quit
- [> CTRL X - Cut
- [> CTRL C - Copy
- [> Shift+CTRL C - Append (to clipboard)
- [> CTRL V - Paste
- [> CTRL A - Select All
- [> Shift CTRL A - Deselect All
-
- I love everything above this point.
-
- [> CTRL F - Find
- [> CTRL G - Find next
- [> CTRL R - Replace *1
- [> CTRL T - Replace Next
-
- What about "Find Previous" or "Replace Previous"? In MasterBrowse,
- I use ^E for "Find Previous" mainly because EFG = Previous/Find/Next
- so it is easy to remember.
-
- Perhaps a better way to do "Find Previous" and "Find Next" would be
- to set ^E (for ERT) as "Replace Previous" and ^D (for DFG) as
- "Find Previous". Comments?
-
- [> CTRL B - Bold for word processors
- [> CTRL I - Show Info /Italic for word processors
- [> CTRL U - Underline in text editors
-
- How about ^L for "light" text in word processors.
-
- [> CTRL [ - Block start
- [> CTRL ] - Block end
-
- This seems to imply that programs should allow the setting of a block
- with the keyboard. Or did you mean "goto block start" and "goto block
- end"?
-
- [> In Dialog Boxes
- [> ---------------
- [>
- [> Return - OK, Yes, etc...
- [> Undo - Cancel, Abort, etc...
- [>
- [> Other buttons should be available via ALT+<x> as in Let 'em Fly.
-
- This is good as far as it goes, but I think it needs more work. Such
- as, what gadgets should a windowed dialog box have? (I personally
- use the MOVER|CLOSER set.) Also, it would be nice if we decided which
- keypresses should be used. For example, EGEM has a very full set of
- dialog commands that allows access to the clipboard, a history buffer,
- moving to the first editable field, the last editable field, etc.
- We should standardize this (if we can) while we are doing the ohter
- keyboard shortcuts.
-
-
- [> *1 There's a good arguement for using CTRL F,G,H for Find, Find
- [> Next and Replace.
-
- Not really.... :)
-
- [> ALT Z Font selector
-
- Atari says never to use Alternate in a menu shortcut. How about ^Z?
-
- [> Bye,
- [> Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
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