It would prevent me from going insane too! Well, *more* insane, that is.
8-P

I second Doug Way's recommendation of:

{ $c . $x . $v . $a . $s . $f . $g . $z }

Thanks, guys, especially Andreas for offering to make the change.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From:	squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Doug Way
Sent:	Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:12 PM
To:	squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject:	Re: [Win32][RFC]: Default settings for Ctrl vs. Alt


Ned Konz wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:22 pm, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > 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...).
>
> You can swap those too...
>
> InputSensor installSwappedKeyEntryFor: $s.
> InputSensor installSwappedKeyEntryFor: $f.
>
> though I think these will be reset if you turn swapping off and back
> on.

I would strongly recommend having the preference swap all eight keys which
are currently reversed in Windows versus Squeak.  I believe these eight keys
are:

x (cut)
c (copy)
v (paste)
a (select all)
s (save)
f (find)
g (find again)
z (undo)

(I don't think there are any other modifier keys that are letter-equivalent
between Windows & Squeak.)

In other words, InputSensor class>>installKeyDecodeTable should be changed
to use the collection { $c . $x . $v . $a . $s . $f . $g . $z } instead of
what it has now.

I think this would prevent Andreas from going insane. :)

As far as whether the preference should be on by default on Windows
platforms, there are pluses and minuses either way.  I might lean toward
having the preference on by default for Windows users, since the people who
prefer Alt are probably more familiar with Squeak and would be more likely
to know how to switch the preference back.

- Doug Way
  Detroit, MI