[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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