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From: kaplan@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Power Users (long)
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Date: 5 Jan 88 05:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kaplan    Jan  4 23:39:00 1988


Just one small point:

I would like to have a fair degree of control over my interface to any
tool;  specifically I would like to be able to set/change my own
keymaps.  Emacs is of course the best example of this, but so is X windows.
Given just about any Mac product I have used (MacWrite, MacDraw, MacScheme,
Word) extensively, it is very irritating that I cannot rearrange the order
in which things appear on menus, bind frequently used commands to simple key
sequences, etc.  None of the systems (even word) I have used on the Mac
give any support for this.  It means that my use of the system cannot
"grow" as I become more mature on it.

An example:  In word I would like one command-key combination to get my
font changed to courier (because I write a lot of program + text type
stuff).  This isnt something that I expect Word to provide as standard
(command-shift-e fontname return) does not hack it -- too much typing, and
a similar 1-keystroke command to get things changed back.  I should be able
to add this feature to word.

That's why I use Emacs and X under Unix;  because I have that
customizability power.  No Mac application I have ever seen allows me to do
this.  (And no I dont think that editing resource forks should be necessary
to tailor my applications, given the level at which that editing must be done).

Simon Kaplan
(kaplan@a.cs.uiuc.edu)
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