IDE Bug - Sudden Loss of Keyboard Copy

[Mathewson]

quoting Thomas McGrath:

"Have you considered used "Sticky Keys"? It comes built in
to the  
Macintosh OS under the Universal Access panel in the System
 
Preferences. It states:
"for difficulties pressing more than one key at a time:"
With it on you only have to hit the sequence of modifier
keys as single key hits.

With it on you only have to hit the sequence of modifier
keys as single key hits."

Yes, I have, and the word in your message that best sums up
its short-comings is "sequence". Nielsen and the other
usability chaps would have forty-thousand fits!

In Dundee there is a socking great building (at the western
end of the King's Highway) owned by NCR (National Cash
Register) and, surprisingly enough, this is not a factory
where they build cash registers and bank automats - it is
the 'think tank' where people try to design ever-more
user-friendly cash registers and bank automats. Like
everywhere else they are faced with to diametrically
opposed forces:

1. To make the machine as feature-rich as possible,

and

2. To make the user-interface simpler.

My Dad bought me a calculator in 1976 which had 4
functions: +, -, / and * and it was great. 2 Years later he
bought me a 'scientific' calculator with more features than
I would ever use which had to be accessed through any
number of multiple key pressings - after the initial
euphoria it went in the cupboard and I reverted to my first
calculator - needless to say, I now rely on a Thornton
Double-sided slide-rule which has no buttons and every
feature is up-front so I don't have to memorise 275 fancy
key-combinations just to do a quicky with a few Napierian
logs.

Pressing 3 keys one after one another is more damaging to
tendons as pressing 3 at once. Jeff Raskin (the late, great
Jeff Raskin) was working on a mouseless GUI when he died -
I hope somebody will continue work on it.

Any way, after that rant I'm going to stump across to my
main-Mac and try a few F-key hacks of the RR interface!

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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