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- From: error@stack.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:54:57 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405301540.C17681-0100000@undergrad> from "Timothy Miller" at May 30, 94 03:34:40 pm
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- Timothy Miller wrote:
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- > 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.
-
- Hmmm, you are surely right when it comes to the Atari keyboard, but some
- of us have PC-style keyboards and these normally have a caps-key in
- between. And in itself selecting the entire document isn't dangerous. It
- is the actions that follow. Maybe it would be wise to empty the
- keyboardbuffer right after selecting the whole document.
-
- Erlend.
-