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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 12:42:22 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Timothy Miller wrote:
- >On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
- >> Timothy Miller wrote:
- >>
- >> >^A+ANYTHING is a bad combination.
- >>
- >> Even copying?
-
- ><ahem> I think you know what I man, but in case I'm wrong, what I meant was:
- >an UNINTENTIONAL ^A+anything is a bad combination.
-
- No, I don't know what you mean. ^A^C is a totally legitimate and
- necessary way to select and copy all of a document to the clipboard.
-
- Your assertion was that ^A should be removed because ^A[DEL] is too
- easy to do accidentally. I am saying that ^A is useful and already
- standardized, and that removing ^A is not the correct way of removing
- the problem of ^A[DEL] (or ^A[text] in AWorks).
-
- --
- Warwick
-