From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T05:28:58+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion


From: "James Gray" <james@grayproductions.net>
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Phlip wrote:
>>
>> How often do you actually need to do that, compared to the  
>> beginnings and ends of lines.
> 
> Mac's have keyboard shortcuts for that that work in all applications.   
> They are apple-left/right arrow.
> 
> The important point here is that it's clear you are passing judgement  
> on a platform you have not bothered to learn about.
> 
> Let's end this off topic discussion here now please.

Sorry, I can't resist, but I've had a Mac on my desk for the
past five years.  Every platform has its warts.  Having to
hold a modifier key to perform such a common cursor movement
is something I think is arguably. . . . suboptimal. :D

Home/End are the first keys I rebind in any Mac editor that
will let me.

An analogue on Windows is the desktop context menu for
creating a new folder.  It's buried in a submenu.  The keyboard
shortcut is also lengthy, Alt-F-W-F.

I'm not sure longtime use of these platforms has done much
to change my initial "wow, that's dumb" reactions to these
misfeatures.  :)


Regards,

Bill