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From: rokicki@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Poll of net tastes
Message-ID: <2856@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 19 May 88 18:33:58 GMT
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Reply-To: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
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> What I want is a program that will read my mind and activate the window that
> I want to be in.

Precisely.  This is what TI has done with their Explorers; anytime I want
to be in the editor, *bam*, I'm there.

(The fact that my hands are conditioned to hit SYSTEM-E doesn't even flash
into my mind.)

Seriously, though, I would like a hot-key program to be able to do this,
somehow, based on the program name in the CLI, maybe, or maybe the title
bar name, or something.  I consider the SYSTEM key to be one of the
greatest user interface features since the stoplight.

Anytime I have to touch the mouse when doing something that shouldn't
require the mouse (like depth arrangement and activation) I feel like
nuking Xerox PARC.  (Although when I need the mouse, boy am I glad it's
there!)

-tom
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