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From: rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Exotic Interface Query
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 20:20:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 20:20:08 1987
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In article <8704061526.AA14490@ican.think.com> rose@THINK.COM writes:
>As a matter of principle, you should look most suspiciously at any
>functionality which is available from one input device only.
>Why must there be a necessary relation between an operation
>(e.g., select window) and the means by which it is requested
>(e.g., mouse)?
>
>More specifically:  Anything you can do with the mouse,
>you should be able to do with the keyboard, and vice versa.

How would you implement, for example, something like MacPaint, where
everything can be done from both the keyboard and the mouse?

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