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From: [e-mail] (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: Shortcut Manager
Date:     Sun, 22 May 1994 01:45:16 -0600
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In <9406010811.AA06067=[e-mail]>, you write:
[Author:  Annius Groenink]
>
>Just an idea that came in a rush,  but couldn't we centralize shortcut
>handling as well?  We'd have an AES call (wind_get or sth) which we give
>a shortcut and which will return the meaning of the key as set by the user,
>Then,  the user will only have to configure once.

This would be difficult, I think, because there are so many different
types of applications and each of them is bound to have specialized
menu entries that should have shortcuts.  For example, MasterBrowse
has an "expand block" option to put a marked block in a separate
window.  This option is used quite often by me, so I have a keyboard
shortcut for it.  How would the centralized program deal with this?

I like the idea, though.  If you could elaborate on it some more,
though, I'd like it more.  At the very least it would be better for
the list than all the arguing about ^A.  Only one person has a problem
with it.  Why not just vote on it (which should not really even be
neccessary since at least two people want it to stay)?


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