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- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 09:06:06 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Rick Flashman <rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
- Subject: Comments
- To: Atari GEM Mailing List <gem-list@world.std.com>
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- I must say that I am a little confused. I was asked to join this
- "gem-list" to assist in developing a new standard of keyboard equivalets.
- Mostly because we develop some of the three best selling programs in the
- North American market (NeoDesk, Geneva, and STalker). Therefore we have
- a substancial influence over the more popular keyboard equivalents here.
-
- This is especially true in the case of Geneva. After all, who cares if an
- old program doesn't support the "control-U" for closing a window, as long
- as your operating system does (same result).
-
- However, it seems that we are here too late. The standard is already
- decided on, and not subject to much discussion. I don't know who the
- senior committee was that decided on it, but we are not too comfortable
- not having been invited to be part of it.
-
- All these "Control" keyboard equivalents are great, but I'm not sure how
- we are supposed to implement them in programs like STalker or STeno (one
- is a terminal that needs the control keys for communications, the other is
- a text editor that supports entering control keys).
-
- If we had been here earlier (before the standard was decided on) we would
- have argued for ALT-everything. It is not used by many programs (so
- everyone is in the same boat and has to change), and leaves the entire
- CONTROL set open for programs to use for "custom" commands.
-
- So, I guess that the next step for us is just to wait for the key file
- format to come out (from wherever it is that it is coming out). Then we
- will take a look at it and decide if we should support it in our next
- revisions (depending on how the rest of the market accepts it).
-
- Rick Flashman,
- Gribnif Software
-