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Re: Modifier Keys?

Post by dunbarx » Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:38 pm

Richmond.
best to equate the COMMAND and the CONTROL buttons:
Not sure what this means.

There is no commonality among keyboards, never mind among platforms of the naming of the several "control" buttons. Many have symbols instead of words.

First off, please tell me if we have solved the problem of "not enough pairs" to cover the five different cases you mentioned. Then please tell me again what your issue is here. Because any instruction notes you might write to describe a particular key-pair combination is going to run into naming problems. But is it down simply to naming problems?

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Re: Modifier Keys?

Post by dunbarx » Wed Jul 23, 2025 5:47 pm

Richmond.

Did anyone mention this? Why not just use five function keys?

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Re: Modifier Keys?

Post by richmond62 » Wed Jul 23, 2025 7:31 pm

If anyone had bothered to study the image I posted earlier (and I am posting here again), they would see that I had solved things to my satisfaction already:
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So, as far as I am concerned there is nothing further to discuss until, at the very least, some "Prof." of Old Church Slavonic moans about usability: and as specialists in Old Church Slavonic are my target demographic that is all that should matter from now on.

And THAT Shift-Alt-Ctrl + key is nothing to get one's knicker in a twist about unduly as:

1. Subscripted Old Church Slavonic letters are rarities [c.f The Kotlenski school of Slavonic Calligraphy]/

2. Any standalone generated with LC 9.6.3 Community and/or a "Continuation" IDE WITHOUT a menu (and that would screw things up right royally with MacOS 13 and upwards), especially one that features "save as . . ." [and the concept of saving a standalone does not make much sense] should not gets its metaphorical knicker in a twist by some one pressing Shift-Alt-Ctrl + S from time to time.

AND be sure that IFF some "Prof." of Old Church Slavonic moans about usability you on this list will be either the first or the second to know. 8)

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