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- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 14:36:15 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.UznLU2SPdn2@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
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- On Sun, 22 May 1994, Michel Forget wrote:
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- > I have a suggestion that I would like to hear comments on:
- >
- > Think of the shift key as operating on "all", and the control key as
- > operating on "word".
- >
- > Shift + Arrow = "move as far as you can in specified direction"
- > Shift + Delete = "delete as much as you can to the right of the cursor"
- > Shift + BKSP = "delete as much as you can to the left of the cursor"
- > Control + Arrow = "move one word in the specified direction"
- > Control + Delete = "delete one word to the right of the cursor"
- > Control + BKSP = "delete one word to the left of the cursor"
- >
- > Does anyone have anything to add to this? Complaints? Flames?
- > IMHO, it seems reasonable. A different keypress could be used to
- > delete an entire line, line many text editors do. My personal
- > favourite (currently unused by Atari for anything else) is ^Y.
- >
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- The theory is very sound, because it's logically layed out. But it's
- been tested. See my previous argument against the shift backspace/delete.
-
- On the other hand, I LIKE Ctrl-Y.
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- Hey, did you ever think of adding the old ^KB, ^KK to the standard? Now,
- once the block has been selected, anything typed would replace it, etc,
- (deviating from the way WordScar did it), but it would be nice to be able
- to do that from the keyboard. Or better yet, how about ^B and ^K for
- marking beginning and end? Fewer keypresses. I like the Windows/Mac
- think with the shift-movement selecting a block, but since we can't do
- that, I'd like some other way of doing it from they keyboard.
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