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- From: "Rainer Riedl" <Rainer.Riedl@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 10:49:43 MET-1
- Subject: 'Cntrl-I' -> 'Cntrl-?' ???
- Priority: normal
- Message-Id: <2FA99319E7@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- > As for Ctrl-I, I think both are good. How about allow text apps use it
- > for Italic, and others for Show Info. On the other hand, if you use the
-
- Two functions for one shortcut? Isn't really good. - "Oh, now I work with an
- xxx, then I have to use yyy, or was that for zzz?!?" - How about Cntrl-? for
- Info? There could be some problems, because the '?' is on different keys on
- different keyboards... (Sorry, no time to check this.) But it's easy to
- remember, isn't it? :-)
-
- > I think standardisation is more important than free definition by the user
- > because the majority of users won't bother to redefine shortcuts, and this
- > ---------------
- > I agree with this. First and foremost, define the STANDARD, THEN think
- > about ways of making it configurable. I know that MANY programmers won't
-
- I agree, too. Every program should use the standard and if the programmer
- wants to, then he can make it configurable (using the standard we're doing
- later).
-