On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:11 +1300, "RussellMc" wrote:
> I've been of the impression that "old" sequences are vanishing and
> also that time honoured shortcuts are being changed apparently
> arbitrarily.
>=20
> For some decades you could still use many of the (brilliant) Wordstar*
> left handed sequences but they were slowly eroded and now largely
> gone.
>=20
> I seem to recall that a key layout  change also made these less
> mechanically useful compared to originally. If so that would have been
> "a while ago" [tm] :-). Maybe with the change to AT keyboards? :-)
>=20
> I found an application recently that ignored Alt-F4 when I think an
> earlier version of it was OK.
> EVERYTHING should honour Alt-F4!!!
>=20
> For the not-ancient - Wordstar is to Word Perfect what Word Perfect is to
> Word.
> For the rather young, Word Perfect is ..., oh, never mind.
> Anyway, anything that steels F1 deserves to die.

I wish the "lock keyboard" sequence could be done with one hand.
WindowsKey-L is sometimes tough to do when the cat is in midair heading
for the lap and the laptop is in the way >^..^<

PADs was very good about having both keyboard and mouse control up until
it was updated from PCB to PowerPCB. Then a lot of keyboard shortcuts
disappeared.

Cheers,

Bob


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