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Subject: Re: MAUS
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 19:58:34 +0200 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405291453.B13407-0100000@undergrad> from "Timothy Miller" at May 29, 94 02:06:53 pm
From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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> Unlike the damage caused by ctrl-A, UNDO never fixes the damage caused by
> shift-backspace. I will often end up retyping the same line repeatedly
> if I make a typo in the middle of a string of all caps.
I don't want to make any unnecessary advertisement, but Edith (my
editor) *does* UNDO shift-backspace. And I think all applications do,
as it is, as you say, just as dangerous as ^A. So I'd like to repeat
that dangerous combinations are fine, but the guidelines should stress
that they *need* to be covered by UNDO.
> Be warned. I am an Atari fanatic, an efficienty fanatic, and a
> user-interface freak. Being involved with this standards commitee, I'm
> going to make sure it's perfect. If necessary, I will discuss it with a
> friend of mine who is a full Professor at the university of south
> Florida's computer science department and has a Ph.D in psychology.
Good.
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