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From: mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu (Lawrence J. Mazlack)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Friendly user interface?  What friendly user interface?
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Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 16:34:50 EDT
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>>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 ...
>

Actually, I'm starting to like them.  They are pretty useful for me when
word processing (the thing that many people use their Macs/Lisas most for).
I do a lot of stuff in MS Word and they do document it pretty well.  It turns
out that you can use a lot of the Word option-control stuff in Write as well.

I will agree that it would be nice to have all of this compiled someplace.
With my Word documentation, I am OK with text processing, but miss out
on the piture stuff.

Larry Mazlack
mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu