Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdragon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdragon!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Friendly user interface? What friendly user interface? Message-ID: <921@watdragon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 12:26:38 EST Article-I.D.: watdrago.921 Posted: Fri Apr 25 12:26:38 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Apr-86 06:04:31 EST Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP (John M Sellens) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 In article <3237@sdcc3.UUCP> borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes: >One of the most fun things to share with other Mac people are option-key >'tricks' you've discovered or heard about. Supposedly these are all >documented somewhere, but not obviously. Hence, a few more for those who >haven't heard already: The option and command keys have to be just about the stupidest thing on the mac. No documentation, obscure combinations of keys, no consistency. They go to all the trouble to make an easy to use, consistent interface, and then they tack on these obscure magic incantations to do the really useful stuff ... Dumb, dumb, dumb. (Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.) John