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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 12:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9406010242.AA18555@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9406011210.A2199-0100000@undergrad>
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On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
> No, I don't know what you mean. ^A^C is a totally legitimate and
> necessary way to select and copy all of a document to the clipboard.
This is true.
>
> Your assertion was that ^A should be removed because ^A[DEL] is too
> easy to do accidentally. I am saying that ^A is useful and already
> standardized, and that removing ^A is not the correct way of removing
> the problem of ^A[DEL] (or ^A[text] in AWorks).
That was NOT my assertion. My assertion was that I and several others I
know have the tendancy to have their little finger slip while touchtyping
and hit ctrl-a. The next key pressed then wipes out the document. This
is what i've said several times.
>
> --
> Warwick
>