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Subject: Mouse help window
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 21:19:47 EST
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My experience tells me that it is hard just fitting explanations
of three buttons onto a line of text.  I have seen programs that
change this line according to the modifiers currently pressed,
and it works well.

You are arguing that a certain technique is ok because you don't
see any problems.  However, it is just a gedanken experiment.
The fact that problems don't seem like much in a gedanken experiment
doesn't count for much.  I hope people won't be lulled by this
into thinking that the problems aren't there.