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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 10:39:24 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- In message <Pine.3.87.9405301540.C17681-0100000@undergrad>, you 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.
-
- My SO did something like this in AtariWorks. Imagine you've just finished
- your work and type:
-
- ^All done.
-
- (Atari works has the added danger that entered text REPLACES whatever is
- highlighted, a-la AppleMac)
-
- Single-level UNDO doesn't usually save you, especially if you touch-type.
-
- --
- Warwick
-