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["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano) on Wed, 22 Dec 2004
00:37:29 -0500


> We've ... tried all kinds of Helpkey-XC configurations. But we always came
> back to separate keys for commands and framenames as the cleanest
> arrangement with the fewest compromises.

Yes. Carl's post is dead right, top to bottom -- secret
insider stuff that behooves programmers to consider. It's
dumb to change the Enter key. I think the only way to live
with that is if you _always_ have a fullsize keyboard with
two Enter keys: do what you will with one of them, but keep
the other one 100% clean. And keep your head straight about
which is which, and know what the behavior of the underlying
native|programmed command will be when you hit the one or
the other. Which is the exact opposite of the "don't need
to know nuthin'" transparency that Harry was enthusing
about. It's a steep set of requirements -- especially if
you didn't write the programming. Non-obvious glitches
*will* arise, guaranteed -- and they'll come home to roost
... here. And they'll be artifacts, chimera. Ugh.

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Robert Holmgren
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