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From: r.mellish@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Digested
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 10:54:23 bst
In-Reply-To: <9406070324.AA29847@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>; from "Warwick Allison" at Jun 7, 94 1:24 pm
Precedence: bulk
Warwick writes:
>[...]
> Is this for humans or machines? You don't have a hope in hell of making
> codes unique in a key bindings file! Parsing strings is no more difficult
> than parsing numbers! This talk of `put such-and-such in the 1000+ range'
> scares the euphemisms out of me.
>
> Co-ordinating the distribution of numbers to application-operations
> would be impossible. How do we make sure every `Save' is #1754? Every
> `Resize' is #765? Every `Insert Date' is #288?
I have to agree. If we have code numbers, we will need to have someone to
co-ordinate them. People are just not going to bother, especially software
authors who are not net connected. Text, rather than numbers, is the way
to go.
> [...]
>
> Dedicated sections can be achieved by following the
> Xdefaults method, where `sections' are just prefixes to the attribute,
> ie.
>
> *Edith.*SaveAs: Ctrl-A
>
> Which matches:
> Editor.Edith.SaveAs
> Editor.Edith.Binary.SaveAs
>
> but not:
> Editor.Everest.SaveAs
>
> Whereas:
> Editor.*SaveAs: Ctrl-A
>
> matches:
> Editor.Everest.SaveAs
> Editor.Edith.SaveAs
> Editor.Edith.Binary.SaveAs
>
> but not:
> Painter.TruePaint.SaveAs
>
This is also good. I think we *need* a way to tell specific applications to
use specific keys, rather than always use the global defaults, even for
`standard' operations like closing windows etc.
>[...]
> Timothy Miller:
> > If the shortcuts are configurable, then there's no point in having a
> > standard because people can set it to however they want.
I think all keys should be configurable, *and* there should be a standard
set for the most common operations. If the standard set is close to what
is used now (looks like it), people can still work the same way (and the
keys will be the same as older apps), but be able to changes things they
don't like.
-- Robert Mellish, Femtosecond Optics Group, Imperial College, UK. --
Email: r.mellish@ic.ac.uk Net: rm03@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk