From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Aug 4 10:20:31 2004 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:14:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Odd Skancke To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] My remarks (2) In-Reply-To: <009901c479c7$75a66b30$520963d9@blaszak> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ozk@atari.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote: > >> You asked for one application, where this problem does not occur, > >> right? > > > > No, I was not. I was pointing out a design flaw, and then on a > > sidetrack which you view as the main point, I asked for an > > application where ctrl+a didn't mean "select all", and because I > > expected selfrighteous people to > > use that against me, I clearly said that it was just out of curiosity. > > To be clear: > > I) You stated that Ctrl close to the A is a design flaw on Atari keyboard. > > II) When asked, why, you said that with Ctrl/A + some key you can destroy > your entire text. > > III) But (others stated, me among them) this is a major problem only if: > > 1) your wordprocessor does not take this into account, or Ok, to terminate this utterly stupid and outofplace thread; A wordprocessor/text editor that _takes_this_design_flaw_ into account is a _proper_tool_!! Ok? So a program that takes this this into account shows that Maurits is right, it _works_around_ a _design_flaw_. A program that does _not_ take this into account is not a _proper_tool_, and Konrad is right. Goddamned... -- Regards, Odd Skancke - ozk.atari.org - http://assemsoft.atari.org