Re: Accelerator and terminology guides?

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom infernal-iceberg com>]

calum benson ireland sun com (2001-06-28 at 0817.22 +0100):
> > I have no interest in hearing, this is what Windows and the Mac do -- the
> > Mac doesn't use control for this, and Windows is a differnt evironment.
> > It's easy to see that if you use ALT instead, these conflicts go away.
> Those ones certainly do... it just leaves the equally large problem of
> what you use instead of ALT to access mnemonics?  :)

IIRC Mac does not use fast access, and Motif (NS, at least) enters
"menu mode" with F10 (then you have to use arrows, which is slow,
instead of hitting some letters). The mess appeared with Windows, I
believe, where they wanted direct keys (Ctrl) and menu keys (Alt).

GSR