[Win32][RFC]: Default settings for Ctrl vs. Alt

Diego Gomez Deck DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com
Wed Jul 10 21:27:25 UTC 2002


Andres,

It's difficult to teach new thing to old men.  I vote for ALT.

Diego Gomez Deck

>Folks,
>
>There is something I wanted to ask about the Ctrl vs. Alt preference on
>Windows now that Ned's change is in (btw, Ned that was a pretty piece of
>work). Is there any general feeling of what the default should be?!
>E.g., we *do* have the ability to set per-platform preferences on
>startup and if there's a general opinion to have the editing keys use
>Ctrl instead of Alt I'd be willing to make the change (although I will
>switch back almost instantly - I tried it for about half an hour and it
>drove me insane that Ctrl-C is copy but Alt-S is save and that Ctrl-F is
>ifFalse and Alt-F is find...).
>
>Cheers,
>   - Andreas





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