Subject: Re: Mistake in http://www.abisource.com/faquser.phtml
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 02:43:02 CST
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:13:15PM -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
> wjc> Somebody please refresh my memory on why this isn't enabled by
> wjc> default? Is there some harm to novices that comes of enabling
> wjc> this power user feature?
>
> kevin> If they accidentally pressed F12, they might get very confused.
>
> paul> Church secretary accidentally hits F12, panic ensues, film at
> paul> 11.
>
> I don't care enough to pursue it, but the confusion would only come if
> someone were relying on the default keyboard shortcuts, which reliance
> I claim the church secretary does not have. Such wizardly knowlege is
> typically limited to the workings of arrow keys, page up and down,
> home, and end. Years of study in monastic solitude might lead some to
> an understanding of the workings of the insert key (most people think
> that the insert key just changes something in the status line and does
> nothing else).
With emacs keybindings, it wouldn't be so bad. With vi keybindings,
the default mode is edit, not insert. So imagine a regular Word user,
who knows lots of key bindings, or a church secratary who knows none,
in vi mode. Not pretty.
sam th
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