"A Word of Caution" to all newcomers
Marcus Denker
denker at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Dec 2 18:07:12 UTC 2004
Am 02.12.2004 um 18:34 schrieb Joshua Scholar:
> I think the best thing to change to not alienate windows / mac etc
> users is
> to remap some keys to standard bindings.
>
> A new user of squeak can't CUT and PASTE for God's sake! It took me
> three
> days to find out that alt-c was doing what ctrl-c does on every other
> computer I've used in the past twenty years. I'm sure that plenty of
> people
> less determined than me, realized that they couldn't do basic things
> and
> gave up.
>
On the mac, cut-n-paste just works like it works on the mac in all
other apps.
We should fix it that this is true for windows, too.
Lex Spoon proposed a fix over a year ago. It got not a single
supporter, and
was therefore rejected:
Subject: [ENH] dupAllKeys
Author: Lex Spoon
Date Posted: 25 October 2003
Archive ID: 13727
Comments:
from preamble:
"Change Set: dupAllKeys
Date: 25 October 2003
Author: Lex Spoon
This changeset causes all ctrl- and command- keys to behave the same in
text areas. It might be called the 'duplicate all keys' proposal for
dealing with platform differences in cut and paste.
Marcus
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