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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>
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- On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
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- > 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.
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- This is true.
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- >
- > 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).
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- 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.
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- >
- > --
- > Warwick
- >
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