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- Date: Tue, 31 May 94 20:12 BST-1
- From: Andre Willey <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.253867@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.UznLU2SPdn2@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
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- In <H.ekK.UznLU2SPdn2@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>,
- mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
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- > Think of the shift key as operating on "all", and the control key as
- > operating on "word".
-
- Hmm, I know of several applications which work the other way around
- (e.g. Shift-delete for a word, Control-delete for a line). I prefer
- to think of Control as the more 'powerful' key, and Shift as the less
- powerful. I guess this is because Shift is used in normal typing, and
- Control is a special extra key. Alternate is thus even more powerful still.
-
- Andre
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