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- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 94 15:59:19 +0100
- From: nj1@ukc.ac.uk
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: Re: Shortcuts
- Precedence: bulk
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- >[> Tab, Spce, Caps, Ret, Entr, Del, Bksp, Esc, Help, Undo, Ins,
- >[> Clr (or Home?), f1-f10 (not F1-F10, to avoid confusion with 'F' key)
- >
- >Well, I would prefer F1-F10 (as the letters appear on the keyboard) but
- >other than that I have no problems with this.
-
- I agree, using F1 looks smarter and more professional than f1.
-
- >[> The numeric keypad should be shown as [1], [2], [-], etc. What about
- >[> Enter - should this just be 'Entr', as above, or [Ent] ?
- >
- >Entr looks a little better, I think.
-
- Well, if you could spare 5 characters for '[Ent]' then why not use 'Enter'?
- Anyway, if not, I think '[Ent]' looks smarter than 'Entr' - It's in keeping
- with the 'square brackets around the numerical keypad keys' theme, and it
- seems less cryptic.
-
- >I like the idea of a KEYBIND.INF file and a CPX to control them. I
- >envision the top of the CPX having a popup to choose between sections
- >like General, Editor, Drawing, Database, Spreadsheet, Other and then
- >having a list box below with _defined_ entries. It doesn't do any
- >good to have programs add entries because then you could have three
- >programs have three identical entries with three codes or names.
-
- Again, I don't see the need for such a configuration program to be resident in
- memory all the time. I know a CPX is not neccessarily resident in memory (esp.
- if you have a Hard Drive), but there are other problems with CPX's such as the
- restriction on the physical size of the conguration editor - I imagine it would
- be difficult to fit all the options in without making the screen untidy and
- cluttered. A .PRG would be fine for this - it's not something that you'd want
- to do all that often.
-
- Also, on the 'large cursor' idea. I hate it. If you want to delete a block,
- you should press Delete (or Shift-Delete if you want to be more secure), after
- all, that's what it's there for. I hate it when you press a key and WHAM! a
- huge portion of the text has dissapeared.... First time I used WordPerfect for
- Windows I lost a lot of my essay this way!!!!
-
- Neil.
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- Neil Jones-Rodway UNIVERSITY OF KENT
- Computer Science Student At Canterbury ####
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