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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 14:44:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Pre-vote proposal
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CTRL Tab Cycle Windows
Shift CTRL Tab Reverse Cycle Windows
CTRL ESC Close Top Window
Shift CTRL Tab Close All Windows
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I think this is more intuitive than the U/W stuff, and frees up those
positions on the keyboard for other things. Plus, Ctrl-Esc may be easier
to hit than Ctrl-U or whatever it was.
You have insert/paste/import file, but I didn't see and equivalent for
export.
Also, what about my idea to assign Redraw Window to Ctrl-A? You know
that would be absolutely the most harmless combination.
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CTRL BS Delete word to left
CTRL Del Delete word to right
Shift+CTRL Del Delete to end of line ***
Shift+CTRL BS Delete from start of line ***
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I like it... VERY much! This leaves Shift-Backspace assigned to NOTHING,
and makes the very destructive operations of delete to end/start nearly
impossible to hit accidentaly. I would make Shift-BS and Shift-Del do
exactly what their unshifted versions do... one character.
As an aside, I fear that whoever writes an amodal dialog handler for us
to use will make it too compiler specific and too complex for some to
want to deal with. I suggest that a standard be devised, and many people
write handlers that follow the standard... this will also be good because
healthy competition gets people to improve their software. If person B's
program is easier to interface with than Person A's, then Person A may
improve his code to be better than person B's.