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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 04:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <199405310655.IAA01379@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Erlend Nagel wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> > Are you not concerned about the danger to the document? The existence of
> > UNDO does not make me feel any better. I souldn't have to worry about
> > it. Ctrl-A makes me worry. LOOK at the keyboard. Ctrl is right next to
> > A, so it's easy to mistakenly hit, and then to make it do something as
> > dangerous as selecting the whole document is pure madness.
>
> Hmmm, you are surely right when it comes to the Atari keyboard, but some
> of us have PC-style keyboards and these normally have a caps-key in
> between. And in itself selecting the entire document isn't dangerous. It
> is the actions that follow. Maybe it would be wise to empty the
> keyboardbuffer right after selecting the whole document.
>
> Erlend.
>
Those that touch-type may not notice their problem until it's much too late.