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From: Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Menu items that change
Keywords: changing menus interface
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Date: 6 Jul 90 22:18:25 GMT
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In article <23043@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> kurash@carr (Mark Valence) writes:
>My friend wrote:
>By the way, menu items that change (like 'Clean Up Selection' versus
>'Clean Up Window' [in the Finder]) are a bad idea (regardless of the
>blessings of Apple interface police).
>
>What are your reasons for not liking changing menus? (It's not
>fair to say they just feel wrong :)

Why do I prefer modeless editors?  So I don't have to remember so
much contextual information.

What I really want is a wysiwyg editor for menus, so I can just edit
items, insert new ones, and delete (or hide) others, without leaving
the main system.
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