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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
-