F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Les Mikesell]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> Even if you don't care about cleaning up the context you are about to 
>> force everyone else to wade through
> 
> You mean like I just did when replying to you? Why do you keep mixing up
> the default initial cursor placement with editing the context?

They aren't mixed up - they are both something you change to suit 
yourself regardless of the initial state.

>> you have to be really, really lazy 
>> to not be able to punch control-end or control-home to jump from one end 
>> to the other.
> 
> Not so much lazy as ignorant. I have to say I have never heard of this.
> I've never used an editor where this is the standard (neither vi nor
> emacs work this way). I see OpenOffice does, but I can't say I think of
> word-processing commands when using an email composer. Maybe I'm just
> old-fashioned.

I did say that things written in the last 2 decades use the standards 
that mostly started with IBM's 1987 CUA (common user interface) work. 
Emacs and vi predate that and don't follow any standards.

> BTW the Evo documentation says nothing about it that I can see, neither
> in the online help nor in the quick reference sheet.

I'm not sure where to find the current standard interface tricks but the 
keyboard ones mostly go back to character mode days.  But I normally 
surf the inbox and preview pane with the mouse/scroll wheel (you can 
hover over the preview window and scroll without losing focus on the 
header window so up/down/delete keys continue to work there) and use it 
to click the reply button, so my hand is on the mouse when the reply 
window opens and it is easiest to just click where I want to start, 
ignoring the default cursor position.

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   Les Mikesell
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