From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard Elberger" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: Re[4]: [9fans] home, end ^h^j^k^l Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20010519141427.A5005199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:30:39 +1200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2dedac2-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >Are we settling in? Does everyone agree that ^C is copy and ^V is >paste? I doubt it. Do we know that all keyboards will have the keys >we need? I'm not sure. Seems like you should decide what features >you want in your user interface, and map those to the available keys, >rather than the other way around. I worked in software internationalization (in software release management) for a few years and it just wasn't char set issues, it was hardware as well. Our inventory of keyboards in the lab was huge. This is why the mouse (or other type of pointing device) is really nice. It really reduces the problem of having to track all the keyboard dependencies -- *if* the pointing device is reliable and the application was built with functionality being run by a pointing device. I think that stuff like ^C has become a learnt evil with the most common OS's and shouldn't be a requirement in the next generation simply because it's habit. -- rich