modifier duplicating/swapping

Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 6 19:54:19 UTC 2004


On December 6, 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Way wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:18:21 +0200 , "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
>
> said:
> > "Joseph Frippiat" <joseph.frippiat at skynet.be> wrote:
> > > I like to have ctrl-c to copy , ctrl-x to cut and ctrl-v to paste under
> > > Windows.
> > > But I prefer alt-s to accept change on Squeak, not ctrl-s.
> > > I think it's better if the same functions are called with the same keys
> > > combinations on Squeak and on the host platform.
> >
> > This sounds very reasonable.    All of these wishes are satisfied by
> > dupMain, the proposal that is winning so far.
>
> Actually, I'd say that dupAll is winning, not dupMain.  (Perhaps that's
> what you meant to say.)  dupAll is preferred by you, me and Milan Z.  

yes. It seems that for a windows-squeak-user newbie (which i am guessing will 
be majority due to the education segment) having Copy/Paste as well as 
"Accept" to be Ctrl-based seems reasonable. Hard to guess people's minds 
though. The implementation ... I do talk and no work, so FWIW, dupAll 
prefered here, Milan

> No
> one has specifically said they prefer dupMain to dupAll. (Well, I did
> originally but then I changed my mind.)  A few others mentioned that
> they like the dup* behavior in general, but didn't differentiate between
> dupMain and dupAll.
>
> However, someone needs to create a preference implementing dupAll (which
> shouldn't be hard).  I will do this tonight if no one else beats me to
> it.
>
> - Doug
>
> > For more details, please
> > go browse through the thread starting at:
> >
> > 	http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-December/08
> > 5261.html
>
> (which is this thread :) )
>
> - Doug




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