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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Autosaver
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Date: 21 Feb 90 16:20:23 GMT
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In article <36@ithink.stanford.edu>, meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) writes...
 [about an "AutoSave" function] 
 [suggests using the "periodic" function of Quickeys and Quicktimer, but]
 [notes the problem of a universal versus application specific macro]

>tactic is to define the periodic macro as a null one in the universal
>keyset, and the appropriate one in the keysets of applications you
>want to do a particular thing periodically. 

Right. This works fine, but note that the key equivalent used for the
universal periodic macro must be the same as the key equivalent for the
application specific macro.  For mine, I use Shift/Command/Option/Control-*
(extended keyboard).

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