On Dec 5, 2004, at 8:44 AM, lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>
> I started to redo my analysis with Doug's comments, but since dupMain
> seems fairly popular I'll skimp out on finishing it unless someone
> speaks up.  (So, speak up quickly if you prefer one of the swap*
> variants!!)

I'm convinced that the dup* options are better than the swap* options 
at this point.

> I still like dupAll better, because of the documentation issue.

I was about to say that I'm basically neutral on dupMain (duplicating 
just the magic 8 keys) versus dupAll, but upon further reflection I 
have to admit that dupAll is probably slightly better.  With dupMain 
you end up with a hybrid mix of key mappings, which makes documentation 
more complicated, but even the actual usage becomes a bit more 
complicated too.  With dupAll, there is the single simple rule that you 
always use Shift to use the "upper-case" key commands.  (They appear as 
upper-case in the menus and in the Command Key Help, e.g. "explore it" 
is "I".)  And using Shift for upper-case commands makes a lot of sense. 
:)

(I was also originally thinking that I didn't want to mess with the 
only three shift-commands that I ever use, "I" for explore, and "L" and 
"R" for shifting text left and right.  But oddly enough I now realize 
that I always type alt-shift for these commands right now anyway, not 
ctrl. :) )

I would predict that anyone annoyed by the dupAll preference would be 
equally annoyed by the dupMain preference anyway, and in either case 
they can simply turn off the preference if they'd like to use ctrl for 
the upper-case commands.

So, whaddaya say we just try dupAll in 3.9alpha?  Any objectors?  I 
will create a preference for this which is turned on by default, and 
then we can phase out the other swap/dup preferences later, since they 
will be pretty much useless.

(And while I'm at, I'll create a separate "keyboard" group of prefs to 
split those out from the "general" prefs group, which is getting way 
too big.)

- Doug


>   With
> dupAll, you can say things like:
>
> 	Whenever the docs say "cmd-key", you should press and hold alt, ctrl,
> cmd, or meta,
> 	and then press "key".  To do cut-and-paste, use cmd-x and cmd-v.  To
> open an
> 	inspector, use cmd-i.  To open an explorer, use cmd-shift-i.
> 	
> 	
> With dupMain, you have to say something like:
>
> 	Whenever the docs say "cmd-key", you should press and hold alt, ctrl,
> cmd, or meta,
> 	and then press "key".  Whenever the docs say "alt-key", you should
> press alt and then
> 	press the "key", unless you are on a Mac, in which case you should
> press cmd and then
> 	"key", or unless you are on some Unix machines, in which case you
> should press meta
> 	and then "key".
> 	
> 	To do cut-and-paste, use cmd-x and cmd-v.  To open an
> 	inspector, use alt-i.  To open an explorer, use cmd-shift-i.
>
>
> Yes, it's very reasonable, but I'd slightly prefer to have the shorter
> descriptions than to have some shorter keystrokes.
>
> If I'm the only one, then I bow out, and suggest we simply turn on this
> #duplicateControlAndAltKeys preference.
>
>
> -Lex
>