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- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 22:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <memo.257052@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405312208.A28453-0100000@undergrad>
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- On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
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- >
- > In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405311942.C27706-0100000@undergrad>
- >
- > In <Pine.3.87.9405311942.C27706-0100000@undergrad>,
- > millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu wrote:
- >
- > > ... If Ctrl-A did not select the whole document, then
- > > the following keypresses would not destroy the document. Therefore,
- > > get rid of Ctrl-A and you have solved the problem.
- >
- > Or better still, get rid of 'Load Document' and you could never destroy
- > your work either. That, or why not just disable the keyboard completely?
- >
- > Get real.
- >
- > Andre
- >
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- Don't get cute. We're trying to develop a GOOD standard here!
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- Listen, people. You don't use something just because it SEEMS to fit!
- If there's something wrong with it that is correctable, then you change
- it.
-
- As Sean Dougherty, user interface expert, once said, "Ctrl-A for
- selecting the whole document is just plain STUPID!"
-
- Yes, it's stupid. It doesn't matter that other people have used it
- before, because it is a foolish choice for that kind of option.
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- Do you people think I'm making such a fuss over this because I like to
- argue? If so, you are sadly mistaken. I am making these suggestions
- because I have EXPERIENCE in the area we are dicussing and I have talked
- with others who have even more experience than I do. I have specifically
- discussed the ctrl-A situation with people who have worked and taught
- computer science for many years, and they agree that is is a foolish
- choice.
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- If we're not going to draw on experience and expiremental evidence for
- this, what are we going to use? Blind arbitrary choices and emotional bias?
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