[Bug][Fix] Setting copy/paste-key preference under Windows doesnot work

oxe sv04er502 at sneakemail.com
Tue Dec 7 00:07:33 UTC 2004


I would add to these lists:

<whatever meta key>  z  --> undo




Aaron Gray angray-at-beeb.net |squeak devlists| wrote:

>> I would like that the first impression new users get of squeak is that
>> the cut/copy/paste/select_all keyboard shortcuts _work_ as expected.
>>
>>
>> This means on a Mac
>>
>> clover key (http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/f/featurekey.html)
>>
>> <clover key>  x    --> cut
>> <clover key>  c    --> copy
>> <clover key>  v    --> paste
>> <clover key>  a    --> select all
>>
>>
>> and on Windows
>>
>> <ctrl>  x    --> cut
>> <ctrl>  c    --> copy
>> <ctrl>  v    --> paste
>> <ctrl>  a    --> select all
> 
> 
> To requote Hannes
> 
>> I would like that the first impression new users get of squeak is that
>> the cut/copy/paste/select_all keyboard shortcuts _work_ as expected.
> 
> 
> This means :-
> 
> <ctrl><insert> --> copy
> <shift><insert>  --> paste
> 
> This is what 95% of Windows users know and use.
> 
> I propose not necessarily now but sometime in the future that on the 
> Windows platform and only on the Windows platform that a preference 
> option is made avaiable that allows the standard Windows CnP keystrokes 
> in duplicate to the standard Squeak CnP keystrokes, whether or not that 
> preference flag is activated or not as default is another matter, but I 
> think this option should be there and probably as I say only on the 
> Windows platform.
> 
> This is most probably what most Windows users expect, and kicking the 
> <ctrl>/<shift><insert> habit is hard and results in the "<shift><insert> 
> unknown character insertion bug" as I call it. Hint Hint, Can I or 
> someone file this as a bug report please !:)
> 
> Okay thats my 0.02cents worth,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 



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