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Bug#192305: "q to end, b for begin" ambiguous



mån 2003-05-12 klockan 15.31 skrev Mario Lang:
> debian@computerdatasafe.com.au writes:
> 
> > On 8 May 2003, Martin [ISO-8859-1] Sjögren wrote:
> >
> >> tor 2003-05-08 klockan 12.13 skrev Mario Lang:
> >> > > I wrote up some other possible short examples (could be mixed&matched).
> >> > > "s to stop" and "l for list's top"
> >> > > "a to act" and "r to relist"
> >> > > "q to quit select" and "r to refresh list"
> >> > > "e to exit selections" and "b to goto list top"
> >> > > "q to quit select" and "b to begin list"
> >> > >
> >> > > My first choices would be: "q to quit select" and "b to begin list"
> >> > 
> >> > What about "q to finish" and "b for begin"?
> >> 
> >> "finish" is good, but shouldn't it be 'f' then? :) (and this should be
> >> translated) I don't like "b for begin" or "b to begin" because you *have
> >> already begun*, I would prefer "t for top of list" or something like
> >> that, because that's what you're getting!
> >
> > A problem with mnemonic keys is that they don't translate.
> >
> > While you may find a clear, unambiguous set in English - quite a
> > challenge if there are more than a few - when you want to try to
> > translate them to other languages, the scheme falls down.
> >
> > Function keys are good. IBM (I mention IBM only because that's where my
> > experience lies) has been using them since the early 70s.
> >
> > I offer these as being CUA-compliant (that means it's consistent with
> > other operating systems including, to a large extent, Windows)
> > F1  Help
> > F2  Split (splits screen)
> > F3  End
> > F4  Return (repeated ends, eg to exit help if you're several layers in)
> > F7 & F8 are used for paging, but many keyboards have sensible
> > alternatives.
> Nitpicking, but, F3 is search these days... so much about "standards".

Didn't F3 also use to be Open? Or is now? Or was recently?


/Martin
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