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Subject: Re: Proposal
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 09:35:07 +0200 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.D9IxnaYtw3o@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> from "Michel Forget" at May 22, 94 01:33:14 am
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> [> CTRL F - Find
> [> CTRL G - Find next
> [> CTRL R - Replace *1
> [> CTRL T - Replace Next
>
> What about "Find Previous" or "Replace Previous"? In MasterBrowse,
> I use ^E for "Find Previous" mainly because EFG = Previous/Find/Next
> so it is easy to remember.
It is fairly standard to use Shift CTRL G for find previous (shift being
the modifier of ^G). Could do the same with ^T. (And even with ^F and ^R
which would reverse the direction before opening the dialog).
> [> CTRL B - Bold for word processors
> [> CTRL I - Show Info /Italic for word processors
> [> CTRL U - Underline in text editors
>
> How about ^L for "light" text in word processors.
Maybe we should have separate chapters for a number of typical application
paradigms such as: an editor, a word processor (quite different),
a drawing package (things on the num pad for scaling) etc. The above three
definitely do not belong in a general standard.
> [> CTRL [ - Block start
> [> CTRL ] - Block end
This won't work on a German keyboard. What about function keys for this
purpose? We haven't considered those yet. But perhaps we should save
the function keys for whatever we cannot sensibly assign letters to...
> This is good as far as it goes, but I think it needs more work. Such
> as, what gadgets should a windowed dialog box have? (I personally
> use the MOVER|CLOSER set.) Also, it would be nice if we decided which
Smaller is OK. Is it? Perhaps not if a dialog is modal?
> keypresses should be used. For example, EGEM has a very full set of
> dialog commands that allows access to the clipboard, a history buffer,
> moving to the first editable field, the last editable field, etc.
> We should standardize this (if we can) while we are doing the ohter
> keyboard shortcuts.
^V should definitely work. Also, the right mouse button should be paste
in dialog fields like it is (well, the middle button is) on UNIX.
> [> *1 There's a good arguement for using CTRL F,G,H for Find, Find
> [> Next and Replace.
>
> Not really.... :)
On the contrary, there is not really a good argument for having ^R and ^T
as that obsolete search and replace paradigm is dangerous. A well
implemented REPLACE operation that swaps selection and cut/paste block on
a fragment-fragment basis is a much better option as it is reversible.