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- From: sorokin@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Zhenja)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Vision Keys?
- Message-ID: <sorokin.30@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Inst. for General Electrics & Electronics, TU Vienna
- References: <724675113.AA00819@contrast.wlink.nl> <1992Dec21.120639.3977@kth.se> <1992Dec22.092853.327@lincoln.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:43:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.092853.327@lincoln.ac.nz> cachoo@lincoln.ac.nz writes:
-
- >> So why the heck are they not using ENTER for 'Next Field'?????
- >>
- >> I just *HATE* when TAB moves to next field and ENTER accepts the stuff
- >> by mistake when you really wanted next field!!!!
-
- >Yes! I Thoroughly agree with you. Even after using this type of interface
- >for many thousands of hours, I still make the mistake ocassionaly. I
- >wonder how this standard came to be and why. There doesn't seem to be any
- >logical reason. Is it because MS Windows uses it?
- > Oscar Cacho, Lincoln University, New Zealand
-
- As far as I remember, Norton Commander used the same idea. NC was de-facto
- standard DOS shell years before MS even thought of Windows.
- This doesn't mean I like it, but it's like language: do you like rules in
- your language?
-
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody!
-