kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (09/01/90)
"I have already received some flak for allowing the assignment of more "than 1 letter in a command key, because it does not follow Macintosh "guidlines. (I personally find it a relief and time saver not to have "to grab the mouse at every turn, opting instead to use a double or "triple command key.) But as always, I am interested in hearing how "others would like to have it. I would like to know more about how "other programs execute commands via the keyboard. I would also like to "know how the Macintosh community feels about deviating away from "requiring the <command> key in every command key sequence. " "-jOn OK, I'll bite. All I really care about is the ability to load up the function keys. The commands I use most frequently are variations of F1 through F15. So far I haven't resorted to doubling up shift keys pressed with a function key, but most of them have 4 or 5 functions assigned to them. I don't waste a function key on a standard key sequence like those for cut, copy, paste, and undo. Haven't we all memorized those long ago? (I only mention this because of the labeling on the extended keyboard.) The two most heavily used Function keys are F1 (format paragraph) and F5 (apply a style) in Word. Those are the easiest for me to hit quickly. Does Nisus let you use the numeric keypad for commands like Word does? I depend on that for beginning of line and end of line, along with single-line scrolling. What about the extra keys on the extended keyboard (Page up/down, home/end, help and delete forward)? Does Nisus make use of those? I guess I wouldn't be too interested in double or triple command keys (whatever those are) but I did find myself starting to do a dw to delete a word the other day. All an application really needs to do is set itself up like Word and let you decide for yourself. (Not that Word lets you do command-dw or anything like that; I just really appreciate getting to define my own keys.) Shirley Kehr