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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
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Subject: Re: World's best word processor
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Date: 12 Jun 89 15:25:31 GMT
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[Some of the attributions have been deleted here, so I'm not positive 
who said what, but anyway:]

In article <25373@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> marquis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Roger Marquis) writes:
>>>The default answer to the "Exit WP?" prompt is also a non-intuitive
>>>"N". Is there any logic behind this?
>
>]Why would No be non-intuitive? The whole idea of WP querying you is in case
>]you made a mistake, by hitting F7 instead of Shift-F7, for example.
>
>  Why assume a WP user is making a mistake when they hit F7? Especially
>after they have just answered the preceding prompt asking whether they
>want to save the document (which defaults to 'Y' even if no changes 
>had been made!).

There is a better reason.  You might only see it if you work on multiple
documents at one sitting however.

If you've been working on one WP document, and want to go to another,
you can't just load up the new one.  If you do, the new document will be
inserted into the old one.  You need to use the exit feature and respond
N to "Exit WP?" to clear out the old document before loading the new one.

If on average you work on at least two documents per session, then you
are using the default more often than not.

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