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- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 94 03:15 BST-1
- From: Ofir Gal <ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Proposal and Shift Control A
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.289187@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <9406032147.AA09620=avg@mijt.cwi.nl>
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- In message <2smnh1$2r5@crl.crl.com>, Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl said:
- >
- >I decided to do my further contributions in a 'digested' form, i.e. I
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- Same here. It makes the mail list so much easier to cope with.
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- >Sounds good! Why not have Control A for deselect all (clear selection or
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- The only reason to keep CTRL+A as it is - is that it is an established
- standard. Almost all apps that I have use it. I don't think this proposal
- will be taken seriously if we change this one. It is the same as trying to
- change CTRL+Q for Quit, or CTRL+S for save.
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- >We definitely need the reverse search next. Just the radio button isn't
- >sufficient. It is annoying to have to open a dialog for that.
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- OK, I'm thinking about this.
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- >Shift Ctrl Y for delete paragraph is word-processor dedicated. It
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- Fair enough.
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- >doubt the use of Shift Control C for 'copy and append to copy buffer'.
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- I wish Everest (which is what I use) supported this. It would be very
- useful for digesting and replying to mail.
-
- >O, and I apologize for the rude answer to Julian's arrogant note about
- >Germany not being willing to implement any proposal. It just hit the
- >wrong spot after I had just seen Ofir's second proposal taking over the
- >Control U and Control W codes the 'German' way...
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- I thought it was funny myself. I hope the German developers do support
- this standard. We have a few of the best ones here on the list and
- arrangements are being made to echo the list on MAUS, so the interest is
- there. We are certainly taking the German point of view into
- consideration.
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- In message <2smnh1$2r5@crl.crl.com>, s.sanders2@genie.geis.com said:
- >
- >Some keyboard equivalents that I don't believe were on the list that
- >should be considered are SHIFT-Help (Enter context sensitive mode,
- >i.e. click to get help on a button or object), SHIFT-CTRL-C (Copy
- >from...) and SHIFT-CTRL-V (Paste to...).
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- I forgot about the SHift+Help one. I'll add it to my propsal. I don't
- understand the other two.
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- Bye,
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- Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
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