Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:24:10 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 24 Message-ID: <526eba5b18tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <77e2a26c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cac3a90Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <526cb14943news@highpath.net> <5e70bc6c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cbf084dSpambin@argonet.co.uk> <526cf50033Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <526d54a62dsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526d611273see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526d61f0c5UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> <526d7119d3see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4209 In article <526d7119d3see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, Russell Hafter News wrote: [Snip] > That obviously suits you, but having to stop typing and grab the mouse > to insert characters on a frequent basis is not for me. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that user-programmable function keys would be useful for IF so many developers didn't prevent their use in programs!!! As a very simple example, I have f9 programmed at boot with |U which is handy for clearing /some/ writable icons (e.g. in the filer) but I'm 'not allowed' to do that in some programs /even when f9 isn't being used for something else/!!! -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity" Hamlet, Act i, Sc.2