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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 14:05:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.248351@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405311410.C24733-0100000@undergrad>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405302346.A19277-0100000@undergrad>
>
> In <Pine.3.87.9405302346.A19277-0100000@undergrad>,
> millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu wrote:
>
> > On a further note, shift-backspace and shift-delete should each delete
> > a SINGLE character.
>
> No, I like Control and Shift delete for delete line (prehaps from cursor?)
> and delete word. As long as they can be undone, there isn't really a
> problem.
>
> Andre
>
Imageine typing this:
... should each delete a SINHL...
you're holding down shift with your little finger and at the moment you
hit L, you realize that the H should have been a G, so you instinctively
hit backspace and then finish with the rest of 'GLE.....'. When you look
back, you realize suddenly that you're line STARTS with 'GLE' and all the
stuff before that has been wiped. And then you realize that UNDO doesn't
recover the line either because of all the stuff you typed after you
erased the line. The user shouldn't have to put up with this because the
userinterface designer should be aware of dangerous keycombinations.
Using ctrl to modify backspace and delete is fine, but not shift.
Listen, folks, we have to be nitpickingly careful about this stuff, or
we're going to end up with crap. If we have things in this standard that
are COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, then we defeat the purpose of HAVING the standard.