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From: ellisond@gtephx.UUCP (Dell Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Summary: Because ...
Message-ID: <43d9c64b.190fc@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 19:49:02 GMT
References: <25325@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
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In article <25325@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, marquis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Roger Marquis) writes:
> ]...
> ]design.  While not a standard, a quite common convention of PC
> ]software is the use of F1 as the help key.  I'd really be interested
> ]in knowing why the designer (or design team) of WP chose to go with an
> ]arbitrarily different selection.

It was Not a common convention when WordPerfect was originally written,
and they can't very well change it on the current users.

> The default answer to the "Exit WP?" prompt is also a non-intuitive
> "N". Is there any logic behind this? I vote for WP as the most counter-
> intuitively designed word processor on the market (aside from Edlin
> perhaps). Doesn't anyone from WP read the net?

Actually, it IS intuitive, if you believe in the 'Better safe than sorry'
philosophy.  Many people would rather make sure they've saved the file
first, rather than lose all those hours of work.

Dell Ellison
ellisond@gtephx