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- Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:34:40 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
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- In-Reply-To: <199405301304.PAA05088@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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- On Mon, 30 May 1994, Erlend Nagel wrote:
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- > Timothy Miller wrote:
- >
- > > With many other programs (especially for UNIX), Ctrl-A moved the cursor
- > > to the beginning of the line, and Ctrl-E moves to then end. Maybe we
- > > should use those assignments.
- >
- > On the Atari those functions are usually assigned to shift-left arrow
- > and shift-right arrow. I like these and they were once defined by Atari
- > as standard (though Wordflair, which is pretty standard uses these keys
- > to move pages up and down).
- >
- > > My pet pieve is Ctrl-A because it's dangerous. The others, I could
- > > almost care less about. Although, I do hate it when someone uses totally
- >
- > If it ever comes to a vote, I like ctrl-A, because the A is intuitive
- > in many languages: 'All' in English 'Alles' in Dutch, 'Alles' in German
- > I do know that languages like French, Spanish and Italian would use the
- > T, but since English and German speaking markets are the biggest for
- > Atari computers I think these take precedence.
- >
- > Erlend.
- >
- 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.
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