From: Heimo C. <ha...@re...> - 2003-01-18 20:34:47
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Yes, yes, mea culpa - I completely forgot about this: > Sweep has a nifty feature which will adjust the pitch of the file > depending on which key you press. As far as I can find out, this concerns the upper row of the characters keys (thus, from [Q] to [] via [Z], <g>.), four steps leftward and four steps rightward. Though from a handling point of view, and if I would use that pitch-changing feature often, Iwouldprefer to place it on the _lowest_ row of char-symbol keys (i.e., [Y] to [,] - <bg again>.) And there's one utmost important hotkey - at least for my needs - and which I found onla after Conrad's hin to look at the "showroom window" of Sweep, and there farthest down - [CTRL] + [mouse_dragging] to have several regions marked in a file. Thus, first thing to do is to simply establish a complete inventory at all, and have a concise list of all keybindings indeed useable. Someone volutary to comply my list ? (Then, with some commentary, couldn't this serve already as a short guide on how to use/handle Sweep ? Which is dearly lacking yet.) Some even more personal/subjective remarks: Iwouldn't want tu "put off" Conrad from anything; and if someone is happy with the keybinding arrangement as it is, that's not my business either to force him/her to change. However, firstly, among the three-four GUI progs on the Linux box I use here, there's not one single one which would have even some of the most basic shortkeys like one of the other. Secondly, it happens that I don't touch one or the other of these progs for a while or even (GASP!) the whole machine (real, practical life is sometimes intervening to keep me offscreen, <sigh>.) Result of this is that I have forgotten half of the keybindings, and certainly all the more rarely used, in the meantime. With far too much mouseclicking in consequence -- a concise list to look up or even print out would be helpful to fresh up what there is of "motoric memory". That latter indeed is a salient argument. But then, where is the "consistency" when [CTRL]-[C] almost everywhere is used for break-out, but not in Sweep ? Or, [SHIFT]-[CTRL]-[A] (to unmark all regions selected) could hardly be called a "standard" for this not-so-seldom used task; and ergonomically it's plain nonsense. Though I know that there are people around who wouldn't be happy without a three-keypress approach to delete a last latter typed wrongly - for my part, I prefer to use [backspace] right away; and I would really dislike someone who'd try to force me to use [ESC], [CTRL]-[space]-[x] instead. To sum up: what I uttered as a wish to Conrad - to give the freedom to change one or the other of the keybindings - would _not_ imply that Conrad would fix, for everyone and all eternity, any other pattern as the one he uses and proposes. Though some of those arguing for a (pseudo-)"standard" do precisely that latter. (BTW, Andre, I wouldn't consider arguing about this as "flame", and sure wouldn't take your posts for that. There is a serious and fargoing difference on the approach to how to handle the 'puter linked with it; and that the *nix-world carries along some of these elements, the absence of which helped to make Windblow$ the success it is, makes it a relevant issue, me thinks.) // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2003-01-18 |