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From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal...
Subject: [9fans] using sam
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:52:34 BST

last night in a hurry i wrote

> up/down movement in non-proportional text is included --

of course i meant proportional (-spaced) text not non-proportional.
cursor keys make some sense when things are laid out
on a fixed-sized grid (including menu items),
which is why they made sense in
the vt100 and DOS worlds, from which they were imported
into the bitmapped world.

>my decision was to make it the null selection. there's also
>the question of which end of the selection to use. i chose to
>always use q0 (the start), but could see an argument for using

that's what i did when i enabled left/right movement as an
experiment, to see if it made people happier.
the world is still a vale of tears, the weather here is worse than ever,
and i conclude the experiment was a failure.