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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Shortcut Manager
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 01:25:22 -0600
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- In <Pine.3.87.9406021243.E11025-0100000@undergrad>, Timothy Miller writes:
- [Subject: Re: Shortcut Manager]
-
- [> If the shortcuts are configurable, then there's no point in having a
- [> standard because people can set it to however they want. Programmers and
- [> users both would be changing them to their own preference, and no two
- [> systems would be the same.
- [>
- [> This would totally defeat the purpose of what we're doing. We should
- [> make ONE complete, BULLET PROOF (which it is not quite yet) standard and
- [> tell people to stick with it.
-
- What? Why are the two options mutually exclusive?
-
- There are good reasons to have a standard; what if the user wants to get
- underway with a program quickly, with no hassle at all? Also, the
- standard includes things such as block marking, what order modifiers
- should appear in menus, how dialog boxes should react to keys, and how
- the cursor should react to keys. These are not things that can be
- controlled in the SHORTCUT.INF file.
-
- A good argument for having the SHORTCUT.INF file is for people like
- you who HATE ^A -- this way you can change it to anything you want.
- It is also good for people who have broken keys on their keyboards,
- or find a particular combination hard to duplicate (perhaps they have
- short fingers or arthritis).
-
- We need both solutions, I think, instead of one or the other.
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