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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Friendly user interface?  What friendly user interface?
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 14:59:23 EDT
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> 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 ...
> 
> 
> John

Most of the "really useful stuff" that the option keys do can be done in
other normal documented kind of ways.

Examples:
Option-Drag To Trash  This can be done just by doing a Get-Info and unlocking
                      the file like you should do.
Option-Close Box      Just close all the windows.


Yes, the Mac has "shortcuts" that, if you feel like memorizing them, you can
speed things up.  If you don't want to memorize them, though, things still
work.  Unlike other machines who shall remain nameless where you have to 
memorize weird commands.  (Oh, of course, RMDIR removes a directory.  How
could I have not realised that.)

The only gripe I have about these shortcuts is that they should be published
someplace in the normal Macintosh manual, so there is a way to learn about
them other than subscribing to bulletin boards.
--
"There is something about you..."                    Peter Merchant