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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 22:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.257052@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405312208.A28453-0100000@undergrad>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405311942.C27706-0100000@undergrad>
>
> In <Pine.3.87.9405311942.C27706-0100000@undergrad>,
> millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu wrote:
>
> > ... If Ctrl-A did not select the whole document, then
> > the following keypresses would not destroy the document. Therefore,
> > get rid of Ctrl-A and you have solved the problem.
>
> Or better still, get rid of 'Load Document' and you could never destroy
> your work either. That, or why not just disable the keyboard completely?
>
> Get real.
>
> Andre
>
Don't get cute. We're trying to develop a GOOD standard here!
Listen, people. You don't use something just because it SEEMS to fit!
If there's something wrong with it that is correctable, then you change
it.
As Sean Dougherty, user interface expert, once said, "Ctrl-A for
selecting the whole document is just plain STUPID!"
Yes, it's stupid. It doesn't matter that other people have used it
before, because it is a foolish choice for that kind of option.
Do you people think I'm making such a fuss over this because I like to
argue? If so, you are sadly mistaken. I am making these suggestions
because I have EXPERIENCE in the area we are dicussing and I have talked
with others who have even more experience than I do. I have specifically
discussed the ctrl-A situation with people who have worked and taught
computer science for many years, and they agree that is is a foolish
choice.
If we're not going to draw on experience and expiremental evidence for
this, what are we going to use? Blind arbitrary choices and emotional bias?