On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:37 -0700, Evolution List wrote: > Backspace is just that. It is going backward as in to the previous > letter in a word. It is going backward to the previous *space* which > may be occupied by a letter.
AFAIK, most Windows users think Backspace means "Delete previous character" (a practice which has become common on Unix as well). Backspace is itself a holdover from typewriter keyboards, where it was used to type one character on top of another (e.g. for underlining). Since this makes no sense on a screen, the meaning has long been forgotten. My point is that "intuitive" is in the eye of the beholder. Personally I hate having to move away from the main keyset and hunt for a PgUp key or whatever. It's as inconvenient as moving one's hand to the mouse, except I can usually grab the mouse without looking. What Evo needs, as I've said in the past, is an easy way to remap keys. I use a dead-key configuration on a US keyboard, so I can type stuff like | or [ easily and also get to accents (�����) and Spanish characters (���), but in Evo I'm screwed when I want the shortcut for preview Pane (Ctrl-`). You can remap a lot of this stuff by editing the XML files, but it's far from obvious to the naive user. poc _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
