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- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: URGENT: Anarchy & VOTING
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <9406020253.AA19135@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- On Thu, 2 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
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- > Michel Forget wrote:
- >
- > >While reading the list, I have come to one definite conclusion. We need
- > >to vote on the various proposals before the list degenerates into endless
- > >arguing.
- >
- > Democracy without public access media is mob rule.
- >
- > ie. if people are not given a chance to express and justify their opinions,
- > then voteing finds the most popular opinion rather than the most
- > reasonable opinion.
- >
- > eg. My gut reaction to ^A would be `Get rid of it!', but after discussion,
- > I see that the cute-but-bad Apple highlight handling (replace by key)
- > is the problem, not ^A. In particular, Annius' comment of the Apple
- > model being reasonable up until the highlight crosses lines illustrated
- > this point.
- >
- > --
- > Warwick
- >
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- So, what you're saying is that Pradip should scrap his whole method for
- handling blocks for the sake of saving ctrl-A?
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- That's rediculous.
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- You're sacrificing a whole section of the user interface and making him
- scrap it and rewrite it just to save ctrl-A.
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- When the simple solution would be to change select-whole-document to
- something else on the keyboard... end of story.
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