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:zz: Hating moving the cursor? [fix]
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- Subject: :zz: Hating moving the cursor? [fix]
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:05:43 +0900
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(Sorry, that last one went out inadvertently.
Nice example: I just found out that ctrl-e
sends an email in Eudora.)
Hi again Bek--
You signed as--
>Gossamer
>who hates using the program at the moment, every time I want
>to move a cursor it takes me 10 seconds to figure it out!
Obviously that's a shortcoming of the present
interface. I hope we get to a more happy-go-lucky
situation, one where you feel comfortable clacking
around rapidly.
For that we especially need Undo--
or perhaps Undo Travel and Undo Structure ... ;)
ChrzT
At 05:12 AM 10/1/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Ted Nelson wrote:
>> I'm all for generality, but since 75% of keyboards
>> (an Official Figure I just heard a voice whisper
>> from nowhere) are the standard silly arrangement,
>> there might well should be an option for those
>> who have this keyboard and want four windows.
>
>Why not select just the arrows for moving around, and use (say)
>alt-1, alt-2 for selecting which window they apply to?
>
>
>Gossamer
>who hates using the program at the moment, every time I want
>to move a cursor it takes me 10 seconds to figure it out!
>
>--
>: Gossamer gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Xanadoodler
>: http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ | And proud of it :)
>: If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all that we
>: wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people
>: calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
>: -- Christopher Morley
>
>
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