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- Subject: Re: Proposal
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 13:20:43 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.NTnbm8exXDM@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> from "Michel Forget" at May 22, 94 01:22:10 am
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > [> Coomon practice is Shift-CTRL and Shift-ALT. The ALT-CTRL combination is
- > [> reserved for the os (eg. ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-esc, ctrl-alt-tab),
- > [> and cannot appear in an application.
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- > Okay, I stand corrected. So the proper (commonly accepted) order
- > that should be used is Shift, Control, Letter or Shift, Alt, Letter?
- > No problem.
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- The keys are ordered Alt-Shift-Control on the keyboard. So I find that
- more logical than having shift before Alt. BTW as far as I know there
- is no command standard for shift and alt as one hardly sees that anyway
- (BTW, it is also dubious whether it should be allowed in menus).
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- Have we thought about left/right shift yet? I've seen programs that use
- leftarrow and rightarrow for shift keys.
-
- Perhaps we should do this:
-
- <- Lshift
- -> Rshift
- (uparrow) Either shift
-
- (or simply not allow a distinction between the shift keys). For example
- a menu entry could be
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- Break <- ->
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