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- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 13:59 BST-1
- From: Andre Willey <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Digested replies
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.397898@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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-
- Phew, just got through about a week's worth of stuff. Here's a few comments:
-
- Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu> wrote:
-
- > It has been suggested several times that shift and control for the two
- > above sets be EXCHANGED for various reasons, including the danger
- > involved in at least one of them (shift-backspace), and that some people
- > have expressed a preference that they be exchanged and some have said
- > that the exchanged version would be more logical and consistent with some
- > programs.
-
- Actually, I tend to agree. I've always felt Control should do the more
- 'serious' action, and Shift the less serious. Thus Shift-Delete should act
- on a word, Control-Delete on a line.
-
-
-
- In <m0qCf80-0000qLC@sdf.lonestar.org>, ekl@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
-
- > If GFA Basic is incapable of doing something as simple as reading an
- > address from fixed place in memory, then too damn bad.
-
- Well I have no trouble at all with GFA doing that. I use the Cookie Jar
- quite happily, via just a couple of lines of code. The thing to remember
- is that the WORD{adr} syntax uses standard mode, whereas DPEEK(addr),
- SDPOKE(addr), etc. provide supervisor mode access to memory locations
-
-
-
- In <2dfb188e@daggskim.ct.se>, bo.leuf@daggskim.ct.se wrote:
- >
- > > CTRL F - Find
- > > CTRL G - Find next
- > > Shift CTRL G - Find previous
- > > CTRL R - Replace
- > > CTRL T - Replace Next
- > > Shift CTRL T - Replace previous
- >
- > Now _why_ make this take more entries than really necessary?
- >
- > Ctrl-F = Find (next)
- > Shift-Ctrl-F = Find (next) and Replace
- > Ctrl-G = Call up Find&Replace dialog (with direction toggles and all)
-
- I strongly agree with that principle, but would suggest:
-
- Ctrl-F = Find (then find next)
- Shift-Ctrl-F = Find previous
- Ctrl-R = Replace (then replace next)
- Shift-Ctrl-R = Replace previous
-
- In any of those, if a search (or replace) string has not been defined,
- a dialog should pop up. Note, the replace string should always be zeroed
- when a new Find string is selected, otherwise selecting Replace later could
- do something unexpected.
-
- > I am however rather unhappy with Ctrl-G as the selection here, since
- > Crtl-G = Goto (line, page, whatever)
-
- True. I like Control-G for goto. Another good reason to keep Ctrl-R for
- replace.
-
-
-
- In <m0qCsU7-0003oRC@gogol.fb10.tu-berlin.de>, chris@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
- wrote:
-
- > > CTRL I - Show Info
- >
- > In text oriented applications I prefer CTRL-I italic
-
- Hmm, how about suggesting the use of Alt-I, Alt-B, Alt-U, etc for Italic,
- Bold, Underline etc. That way, application-specific things like this won't
- get in the way of general stuff.
-
- > > In Dialog Boxes
- > > ---------------
- > > Undo - Cancel, Abort, etc...
- >
- > Problematic when applications use modeless dialogs. Does Undo mean
- > "undo the last thing I did to my document" or "Cancel the dialog"?
-
- Depends on whether the dialog window is currenty topped, I guess. Undo
- should always operate on the currently topped window, using whatever
- operation is appropriate for that window.
-
-
-
- In <199406122018.AA252922313@relay2.geis.com>, dmj@genie.geis.com wrote:
- > - Why does CTRL+W mean Close Window? It's not that obvious.
- >
- > It's a lot more obvious than CTRL-U--at least "w" bears some relation
- > to "Window", but "u" doesn't even come close.
- >
- > The majority of programs I actually _use_ don't have any consistency
- > at all. What I spend most of my _time_ in, though, uses CTRL-W.
-
- Ditto. Ctrl-W for close *W*indow, please.
-
-
-
- In <m0qD9CL-0001YUC@bitsink.gbdata.com>, khollis@bitsink.gbdata.com wrote:
-
- > Well, dual standards aren't really the way to go.
-
- Fully agree. People sometimes use programs written in different countries
- at the same time... In fact, I'd venture to suggest that most of us do. For
- example, I will want to use Neodesk 4 with Mag!x and LEF, and would hope
- that they (and their support programs) will all be able to use the same keys.
-
- Andre
-
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