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Subject: Re: MAUS
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 16:38:57 +0200
From: Jaap Henk Hoepman <[e-mail]>
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In message <[e-mail]>,Michel Forget writ
es:
> Shift + Arrow = "move as far as you can in specified direction"
> Shift + Delete = "delete as much as you can to the right of the cursor"
> Shift + BKSP = "delete as much as you can to the left of the cursor"
> Control + Arrow = "move one word in the specified direction"
> Control + Delete = "delete one word to the right of the cursor"
> Control + BKSP = "delete one word to the left of the cursor"

This seems like a reasonably orthogonal thing to do. But should a proposal for
shortcut standards really go into as much detail as this? I mean, these
shortcuts really only make sense for editor-kind-of-applications. I feel such a
standard really should contain only things that make sense for almost all
applications (i.e. the standard menu items under 'Desk' and 'File';
window-related operations like 'top', 'bottom', 'close', 'minimize' and
'maximize'; and of course 'cut', 'copy' and 'paste'). 'Select all' really
sounds to me like a border case already.

> Does anyone have anything to add to this?  Complaints?  Flames?
> IMHO, it seems reasonable.  A different keypress could be used to
> delete an entire line, line many text editors do.  My personal
> favourite (currently unused by Atari for anything else) is ^Y.
>

Please don't! ^Y is yank (i.e. paste) under Emacs.

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