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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: character codes vs. key codes
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 12:39:19 GMT
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gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) writes:
>Isn't it great when you can tell your users that they should press 
>cmd-option-p to get a certain feature, and have it work on any language 
>system with any keyboard?

Not only that, but it allows option-command-p to be a variant of
command-p, just like option-click is a variant of a normal click.
I think this makes for a much better human interface; once you
start putting diamonds, radicals, and integral signs in your menus,
you have strayed from the narrow road...
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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