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- Subject: Digest
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 10:03:57 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
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-
- Ralf Flashman:
- >Ditto. Ctrl-W for close *W*indow, please.
-
- And Ctrl-W for open *W*indow?
- And Ctrl-W for new *W*indow?
-
- I don't get it. Ctrl-W has absolutely no excuse for meaning `Close', except
- that some programs already use it.
-
- Ctrl-W is excusable for cycle window, as when you press it, you get another
- window (the next one). (but I prefer Ctrl-TAB anyway).
-
-
- Chris:
-
- >I think that changing select all to control shift A is not only the
- >simplest, but also the most "elegant" solution
-
- Please remember that these keys are for ALL APPLICATIONS, not just those
- with cursors. For many applications, select all is a fairly safe, very
- common opperation. Take for example, a vector graphic drawing program:
- very often, the user selects all and does a group modification such as
- moving them, scaling them, etc.
-
- Solving the Ctrl-A danger by making the key obscure is an ALL-APP change
- since all apps should use the same key, but the solution of using a pop-up
- in the almost-always-a-typo case of Ctrl-A + character key can be implemented
- just for those apps for which Ctrl-A is dangerous.
-
-
- Ofir:
- -------------
- Undo - Undo Last op
- Shift Undo - Redo last op
- CTRL Undo - Revert (abandon all changes and reload)
-
- Just hope the user remembers whether to use shift or control (esp. if the
- Revert doesn't validate).
-
-
- Michael Nolte:
- > reLOAD tells me more than reVERT.
-
- Really? Reload could mean `load another copy'. `Revert' has a very precise
- meaning.
-
-
- Neil Jones:
- > As there are only two modifiers - Control and Shift-Control
- ?
-
- What about Shift, Alt, and Alt-Shift?
-
- (and are Alt-Control-Shift MultiTOS-reserved combinations?)
-
- --
- Warwick
-