🚀 go-pugleaf

David Alan Gilbert (gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: 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
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: - David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk - G7FHJ@GB7CRG                   -
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This is indeed a problem, partly. Most shortcuts only have to be "grabbed" 
when one or more files are selected. Otherwise the key can be passed on to 
other applications. ^W to select files does indeed pose this problem. Well,
maybe make of that one a menu item.

Peter

PS: How about using ^I to get an infobox on the selected files.