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- From: me@romana.css.itd.umich.edu (My Account)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Command features
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 18:29:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <63596@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- > In article <2182@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
- writes:
- > > Command-<up> and command-<down> will cycle through the window list.
- >
- > unfortunately, this is an almost useless feature because you still have to
- take
- > your hands off the keyboard to click the mouse to select the new key window.
- > so what good is a KEYBOARD shortcut that requires you to use the mouse for
- most
- > practical purposes??
- >
- > Stuart's alt-arrow key combinations are much more useful to me, because they
- > change the key window also. unfortunately that doesnt effect non Stuart
- windows.
- >
- > --
- > ---------------------------------------------------
- > Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
-
- Well, I admit the keyboard shortcut is generally stupid, but it is very useful
- if you want to see what is in another window (like something in Webster's) and
- then you want to snap back to what you were doing before.
-
- Still, using the mouse is annoying.
-