On Jun 3, 2006, at 5:13 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 2 Jun 2006 at 18:37, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 02.06.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
On 2 Jun 2006 at 23:01, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Why, oh why is page/scroll view now allocated in 2006 to control
E?!! > Surely a logical choice would have been 'E'nharmonic
spelling.
Toggling from scroll to page view has been wired to Ctrl-E as long
as I've been using Finale. Perhaps this is a change to on the Mac
side to bring it into harmony with keyboard shortcuts that Windows
users have had since, oh, say, 1990?
I think the reason it was changed was that the original shortcut on
the Mac (which quite possibly predates FinWin) was then made an OS X
System shortcut. I believe it used to be command-<, which is now the
system wide shortcut for bringing the next window to the front.
Close, but used to be cmd ~.
Maybe on non-US keyboard maps it was cmd <.
Was there something incredibly intuitive about either of those
shortcuts that made them somehow superior to Ctrl-E? That was the
original point, was it not, that Ctrl-E would be more intuitive for
some function whose name began with E, so one would think that the
command it replaced must have somehow had some intuitive connection
with toggling scroll/page view.
At least, I'd think that would be the logical implication of the
argument as it was made by the original complainant.
Nothing really intuitive about it, but it toggling scroll/page view WAS
mapped for a long time to the other key, which I think was the
complaint, and then I suppose he had used cmd-E for something else,
like a QuickKey commmand for toggling enharmonics.
But there ARE a whole bunch of keys within easy reach of the command
key one-handed (assuming left thumb on the cmd key on a Mac), E being
one of them, and tilde ~ being another, which makes them useful for
things you do a lot. A one-handed key combo has a lot of advantages,
even if an easy mnemonic isn't one of them.
Christopher
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