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- Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <9405310039.AA12403@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405302346.A19277-0100000@undergrad>
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- On Tue, 31 May 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
-
- > In message <Pine.3.87.9405301540.C17681-0100000@undergrad>, you wrote:
- >
- > >Are you not concerned about the danger to the document? The existence of
- > >UNDO does not make me feel any better. I souldn't have to worry about
- > >it. Ctrl-A makes me worry. LOOK at the keyboard. Ctrl is right next to
- > >A, so it's easy to mistakenly hit, and then to make it do something as
- > >dangerous as selecting the whole document is pure madness.
- >
- > My SO did something like this in AtariWorks. Imagine you've just finished
- > your work and type:
- >
- > ^All done.
- >
- > (Atari works has the added danger that entered text REPLACES whatever is
- > highlighted, a-la AppleMac)
- >
- > Single-level UNDO doesn't usually save you, especially if you touch-type.
- >
- > --
- > Warwick
- >
-
- Yes, yes! This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. I do it
- often enough that I want to break something every time it happens.
-
- I was talking to Mike Allen, a sysop of the Atari ST Roundtable on GEnie,
- about this. He was telling about his father who has parkinson's disease
- and makes this accidental keypress rather frequently.
-
- I do not have parkinson's disease, and my typing can get as fast as
- 80-100 wpm when I'm in the mood, and I make the mistake of hitting ctrl-a
- often enough to make it a very large concern.
-
- Ctrl-A has GOT to go. Assign NOTHING to it. Select-whole-document is a
- necessary feature of every wordprocessor, but it's not used frequently
- enough to need a shortcut. Make it a menu option and leave it at that.
-
- On a further note, shift-backspace and shift-delete should each delete a
- SINGLE character.
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-