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Article #684Re: Improved filer
From: David Alan Gilbert
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:24
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: <stuff deleted> >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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk - G7FHJ@GB7CRG - ------(Programmers don't sleep - they just park their heads)-------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!mucs!cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: Improved filer Message-ID: <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 17 Dec 92 12:24:53 GMT References: <marlow.723896990@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk> <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 31