Re: Question about keyboard shortcuts
Re: Question about keyboard shortcuts
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:45:20PM -0500, Steve Sobek wrote:
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Hi all...
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Still learning the ins and outs of OOP and Cocoa. I have one question,
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which I believe is at least tangentially on-topic.
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I've notice that most Cocoa apps feature different keyboard shortcuts
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for selecting text, other than the ones we've gotten used to in OS 9
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and Carbon -- opt-shift-arrow instead of comm-shift arrow.
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Why was this change made? As a user, and a potential programmer, all it
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has done is confuse me, especially when I'm going from app to app, such
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as from MS Word or something in Classic, to selecting text in Mail to
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drop somewhere else?
Microsoft applications are pretty much the only OS 9 apps that use
those nonstandard keyboard equivalents any more. There was no change
- option has always moved by word in every HI guideline I've seen, for
at least 10 years.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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