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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 01:00:54 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <9405311438.AA13074=jhh@zeus.cwi.nl> from "Jaap Henk Hoepman" at May 31, 94 04:38:57 pm
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- Jaap-Henk writes
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- > 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
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- Yes it should go into that much detail, as the combinations discussed
- here also apply to editable text fields in dialog windows. (Actually:
- there's another point we should pay attention to).
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- > 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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- Sure, but it's delete line in most Atari (OK, editors) programs.
- Anyway, Emacs has more 'illogical' shortcuts...
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