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Subject: Re: MAUS
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 01:00:54 +0200 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <9405311438.AA13074=jhh@zeus.cwi.nl> from "Jaap Henk Hoepman" at May 31, 94 04:38:57 pm
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Jaap-Henk writes
[cursor keys, shift, control]
> This seems like a reasonably orthogonal thing to do. But should a proposal for
> shortcut standards really go into as much detail as this? I mean, these
> shortcuts really only make sense for editor-kind-of-applications. I feel such a
Yes it should go into that much detail, as the combinations discussed
here also apply to editable text fields in dialog windows. (Actually:
there's another point we should pay attention to).
> standard really should contain only things that make sense for almost all
> applications (i.e. the standard menu items under 'Desk' and 'File';
> window-related operations like 'top', 'bottom', 'close', 'minimize' and
> 'maximize'; and of course 'cut', 'copy' and 'paste'). 'Select all' really
> sounds to me like a border case already.
>
> > Does anyone have anything to add to this? Complaints? Flames?
> > IMHO, it seems reasonable. A different keypress could be used to
> > delete an entire line, line many text editors do. My personal
> > favourite (currently unused by Atari for anything else) is ^Y.
> >
>
> Please don't! ^Y is yank (i.e. paste) under Emacs.
Sure, but it's delete line in most Atari (OK, editors) programs.
Anyway, Emacs has more 'illogical' shortcuts...