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From: db@cbosgd.UUCP (Deceased Bird)
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Subject: Re: undocumented shortcuts (Turn them on/off)
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 15:37:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 24 15:37:48 1986
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Reply-To: db@cbosgd.UUCP (Deceased Bird)
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Before this discussion goes too much further, I'd like to clarify
one point (since I brought it up).  (Paste in :-) where appropriate.)

What I had in mind for "shortcuts" to be turned on and off was
not so much the cmd-key type quickies of the ilk listed on
the File (or other) menu(s), but the kind of thing where, for
a particular program, a sequence like cmd-shift-option-backspace-
stand_on_your_head unplugs the Mac and puts it back in the box
because the programmer who wrote it found the feature useful.

To those who said "the shortcuts are in the Mac+ manual": that's
fine, but it doesn't cover every program-specific hack/kludge/
fine_and_useful_feature (or does it?  Does Apple know something
the Rest Of Us don't?).

To the poster who asked for an example of a "dangerous shortcut":
I can't think of any catatrophic examples in any of the programs
I own, but I do find some of the option-key sequences for special/
foreign characters annoying if I stumble into them in MacWrite and
don't know what I typed.  (They're a godsend when I really need
them, though.)

So, I wasn't thinking of shortcuts in the narrow sense, I was
including things_there's_no_other_way_to_do (like screen dumps,
etc.).

Any scheme to turn things on and off should be simple to operate
and consistent under as many circumstances as possible.  And, of
course, it should be goof-proof (i.e., safe in the hands of an
experienced programmer).

You may now resume (with or without accents) the discussion.

db

I'm pinin' for the fjords.