Re: PgUp/PgDown - why Shift???

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

John Nelson <jnelson lexonia com> writes:
> Personally I think its bad bad double-plus bad that Gnome adopted the
> "Windows" convention of CTRL = command in the interface.  COntrol
> characters have a specific ANSI meaning that both Microsoft and the Gnome
> team have blythly ignored.  This plays havoc with terminal and other
> communication apps where it is desirable to send control codes, NOT signal
> the interface.
> 
> NeXT and Apple got it right IMO.
> 

They also had control over the keyboard to add an extra "command" key,
which we can't count on.

Havoc