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Re: :zz: ESFCIJL< should be valid directions
- To: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: :zz: ESFCIJL< should be valid directions
- From: Gossamer <gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:18:04 +1000
- In-reply-to: <3.0.3.32.19980718185307.008679d0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Ted Nelson on Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 06:53:07PM +0900
- References: <3.0.3.32.19980718185307.008679d0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
Ted Nelson wrote:
> The status line tells me, when I've left Caps Lock
> on by mistake, that
> J is not a valid direction
> etc.
> It seems to me that for the same effort it took to make
> the error messages that list J, etc as invalid directions,
> they could have been made valid directions instead !-)
Trouble is, we run out of keys to use for things.
Keyboards are just NOT set up for using more that one active cursor -
if it were just one we could make it the arrow keys and have the
whole keyboard for other things ...u
Sure you want this?
Gossamer
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