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 -- Martin Sjögren sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)
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