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From: marquis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
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Date: 8 Jun 89 04:35:43 GMT
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]]The key mapping is certainly non-intuitive, but you really only have to
]]remember that F3 is the help key.
]               ^^
]This points out one of the problems with the non-intuitive product
]design.  While not a standard, a quite common convention of PC
]software is the use of F1 as the help key.  I'd really be interested
]in knowing why the designer (or design team) of WP chose to go with an
]arbitrarily different selection.


The default answer to the "Exit WP?" prompt is also a non-intuitive
"N". Is there any logic behind this? I vote for WP as the most counter-
intuitively designed word processor on the market (aside from Edlin
perhaps). Doesn't anyone from WP read the net?


Roger Marquis   (marquis@qal.berkeley.edu || ucbvax!qal!marquis)