Re: The TechWriter miracle

From	Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: The TechWriter miracle
Date	2012-08-06 13:57 +0100
Organization	Russell Hafter Holidays
Message-ID	<52bb002414see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> (permalink)
References	(10 earlier) <52b9a4283dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> <52b9e58446see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <52b9facb2fchrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <52ba026303see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <d01af5ba52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>

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In article <d01af5ba52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>, Martin
Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> wrote:

> In message <52ba026303see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
>           Russell Hafter News
> <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:

> > IMHO, I do not think that apps should tamper with the
> > keyboard without making the effects easily user
> > configurable.

> EW does not tamper with the keyboard, nor does UKey. It
> is up to each application to interpret keyboard input in
> the way it wants.

Really? Surely the application should assume that if I press
a key with '2' on it, then the character '2' is what is
intended?

> For most users' convenience, EW gives some extra meanings
> to the otherwise redundant keypad keys.

I call that tampering.

It means that they key produces a character other than that
the design of the key implies.

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