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Re: Improved filer

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From: David Alan Gilbert
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:24
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In <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be> derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk) writes:

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>Key shortcuts would be very handy. I believe this has been suggested allready by
>someone. I think it would indeed be easiest to have the same conventions as
>used in other RISC OS programs.
> i.e. ^C copy
>      ^V move
>      ^Z clear selection
>      ^X delete (preferably with a confirmation, something like : 
>                     Are you sure you want to delete all those files? )
>      ^E rename (edit name)
>  and maybe some others.

>A wildcard (^W ?) select would be nice. And some kind of name translation as
>well.

This brings up an interesting point - how are you going
to do hotkeys for a window which doesnt normaly have the
input focus - I have the same problem at the moment.  I know
I can put a grab keys window at the back and things like that,
but if everything did that every key would be used multiply.

>Peter

Dave
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