Hello Marcus,  let me raise both hands for two votes.  Lynn

Thursday, December 2, 2004, 11:07:12 AM, you wrote:


MD> 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.
>>
MD> On the mac, cut-n-paste just works like it works on the mac in all
MD> other apps.
MD> We should fix it that this is true for windows, too.

MD> Lex Spoon proposed a fix over a year ago. It got not a single 
MD> supporter, and
MD> was therefore rejected:

MD> Subject:                [ENH] dupAllKeys
MD> Author:         Lex Spoon
MD> Date Posted: 25 October 2003
MD> Archive ID: 13727
MD> Comments:       
MD> from preamble:

MD> "Change Set:            dupAllKeys
MD> Date:                   25 October 2003
MD> Author:                 Lex Spoon

MD> This changeset causes all ctrl- and command- keys to behave the same in
MD> text areas.  It might be called the 'duplicate all keys' proposal for
MD> dealing with platform differences in cut and paste.


MD>      Marcus





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 Lynn                            mailto:lhales at earthlink.net