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- Subject: ^A
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 09:39:38 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
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- Thomas Binder wrote:
- >
- >What about keeping ^A as a keyboard-shurtcut, but also do the following things
- >when it's pressed: "Ring the bell" (that means, ascII-code #7), wait a moment
- >(half a second?) and then clear the keyboard-buffer?
-
- Defeats the purpose of shortcuts - they're supposed to speed you up.
-
- When a user selects ^A, it's probably no to delete it, but to reformat it,
- or drag them, or copy it to a buffer. Delaying this with a bell, etc is
- no use.
-
- Keep remembering: it's what happens AFTER ^A that is dangerous.
-
- The simple solution of validating unrecoverable large actions suits me.
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- Warwick
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