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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:55:34 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405302346.A19277-0100000@undergrad> from "Timothy Miller" at May 30, 94 11:37:46 pm
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > > My SO did something like this in AtariWorks. Imagine you've just finished
- > > your work and type:
- > >
- > > ^All done.
- > >
- > > (Atari works has the added danger that entered text REPLACES whatever is
- > > highlighted, a-la AppleMac)
-
- I think our proposal should also have general guidelines about selections,
- clipboard and shift/control/alt-drag etc. One thing we could say is that
- the Macintosh style selection where entered text replaces the selection
- WITHOUT STORING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE is very bad practice (a good way of
- distinguishing ourselves from the Mac).
-
- > Ctrl-A has GOT to go. Assign NOTHING to it. Select-whole-document is a
- > necessary feature of every wordprocessor, but it's not used frequently
- > enough to need a shortcut. Make it a menu option and leave it at that.
-
- No. You didn't properly read Warwick's point. It is the COMBINATION of
- ^A and other, MORE GENERALLY dangerous behaviour of programs, such as
- 'typing replaces selected text irrestorably', and of Shift-backspace and
- the fact that it may sometimes not be undone, that causes you harm.
- It is those OTHER dangerous behaviour of applications we should provide
- guidelines for to change. I claim here that while my editor package Edith
- has ^A and shift-backspace, you will, after setting the right 'built-in
- safety options' NEVER EVER have to worry about pressing the wrong keys
- again.
-
- Go ahead, drop ^A and Shift-Backspace. But I assure you, in a few days
- you'll find a new harmful combination.
-
- > On a further note, shift-backspace and shift-delete should each delete a
- > SINGLE character.
-
- Why not have them do nothing, like ^A? Well, why not have all keys do
- nothing, except A-Z, a-z, 0-9, punctution, space, return and backspace?
- Those are all you need, basically.
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