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- From: error@stack.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:04:11 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405291453.B13407-0100000@undergrad> from "Timothy Miller" at May 29, 94 02:06:53 pm
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- Timothy Miller wrote:
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- > With many other programs (especially for UNIX), Ctrl-A moved the cursor
- > to the beginning of the line, and Ctrl-E moves to then end. Maybe we
- > should use those assignments.
-
- On the Atari those functions are usually assigned to shift-left arrow
- and shift-right arrow. I like these and they were once defined by Atari
- as standard (though Wordflair, which is pretty standard uses these keys
- to move pages up and down).
-
- > My pet pieve is Ctrl-A because it's dangerous. The others, I could
- > almost care less about. Although, I do hate it when someone uses totally
-
- If it ever comes to a vote, I like ctrl-A, because the A is intuitive
- in many languages: 'All' in English 'Alles' in Dutch, 'Alles' in German
- I do know that languages like French, Spanish and Italian would use the
- T, but since English and German speaking markets are the biggest for
- Atari computers I think these take precedence.
-
- Erlend.
-