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Re: A plea for clarity



I second that!

At 09:42 AM 2/13/97 +0000, Harry Binswanger protested:
>May I request that people here put in a little effort to make their messages
>clearer to people with a different context?
>
>I can guess at many of the shortcuts taken--such as what ^*@N means, but
>perhaps others less fortunately endowed than myself would have a greater
>struggle. ;-)
>
>And when people make reference to what key combination to hit to accomplish
>a certain job, they are assuming that others have their .kbd file. Mine is
>wildly nonstandard, so I have to go open up xy4.kbd to find out what
>alt-Shift-twiddle actually means in terms of a function call. So please
>include the actual function call (e.g., XD) when you tell us what the
>standard keystrokes are. (And why didn't the Xy4 manuals do that? A major
>pain that they tell us only the keys to hit.)
>