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- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 03:47 BST-1
- From: Ofir Gal <ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Proposal
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.257623@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.D9IxnaYtw3o@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
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- >Okay, I'll start by saying that I like the proposal. I do have a few
- >reservations/questions, though, below:
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- Good.
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- >What about "Find Previous" or "Replace Previous"? In MasterBrowse,
- >I use ^E for "Find Previous" mainly because EFG = Previous/Find/Next
- >so it is easy to remember.
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- OK, let's add ^E for Find Previous.
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- >How about ^L for "light" text in word processors.
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- FIne by me.
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- >[> CTRL [ - Block start
- >[> CTRL ] - Block end
- >
- >This seems to imply that programs should allow the setting of a block
- >with the keyboard. Or did you mean "goto block start" and "goto block
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- That's what I meant, set block start by placing the cursor and ^[.
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- >This is good as far as it goes, but I think it needs more work. Such
- >as, what gadgets should a windowed dialog box have? (I personally
- >use the MOVER|CLOSER set.) Also, it would be nice if we decided which
- >keypresses should be used. For example, EGEM has a very full set of
- >dialog commands that allows access to the clipboard, a history buffer,
- >moving to the first editable field, the last editable field, etc.
- >We should standardize this (if we can) while we are doing the ohter
- >keyboard shortcuts.
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- Yes, well Let' em Fly covers most. Any text field should behave the same
- as a text editor, ie ^Del to delete a word, etc. The new developers of Let
- 'em Fly v2 are on this list.
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- >Atari says never to use Alternate in a menu shortcut. How about ^Z?
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- I'll go along with that, it was Wilfried's idea to use Alt.
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- Bye,
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- Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
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