I also second Doug Way's recommendation, especially that long time users
of squeak should be able to switch back and create their own ini-file.

Markus

Am Donnerstag den, 11. Juli 2002, um 01:46, schrieb Chris Becker:

> 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
>
>
>