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From: Michael_Nolte@k.maus.de (Michael Nolte)
Subject: digested
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:17:00 GMT
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Warwick Allison:
>Because the FILE might have changed (multitasking, remember).
Of course, how unthoughtful of me. I'm sorry. You're right then. We need
the else branch. Well done.
>I disagree with the whole Abandon function, but that doesn't matter - we
>only have to use the shortcuts IF the func is implemented.
Correct. If you don't have an abandon function, then you don't need to
worry about its' shortcut.
>Oxford defn of `revert':
> Return, come or go back, to or from a place or position.
I was aware of that, but only because I had to look it up. I figured
reload would be a word, that non-English speakers would understand easier
than revert. I'm an example. If hadn't looked up revert, I wouldn't have
known what it meant, but reload was easy to figure out, because the word
load is used very often. And since this is going to be an international
standard, why shouldn't we prefer common English words.
>`Reload' clearly means `load it again', but doesn't have a `delete it
>first' conotation.
You have a point, there. But would it make sense to load the contents of a
window from the same file as before without previously throwing away
thechanges? I don't think so. So I guess reload is still pretty obvious.
I've just looked up possible German translations of revert. Unfortunately
a satisfying translation doesn't exist, so that I'm still for reload, for
which I would use the German translation "neuladen".
Mark Himsley:
>>I suggest:
>>CTRL-I - info on the text/object
>>CTRL-? - info on the application
>Well _I_ like this.
Unfortunately CTRL-? is CTRL-(shift-german_double_s) and we've just
started thinking about not using nationally altering key combinations,
haven't we?
>> The only key that should work diffrently on the
>> numpad is Enter, as it does not appear elseware on the keyboard.
>Strangely enough this key is equivalent to Return in most applications.
IMO we'd be wise to leave it that way.
>>The big-cursor paradigm makes perfect sense.
>What a totaly silly way to do work!
I like this way to work very much. So far nobody has explained anything
better to me.
Mike