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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>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9406180850.B9341-0100000@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
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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