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(...) Heh. You don't have a Macintosh in the house do you? If so, I can recommend a good pest control company. :) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Geez, I just shocked myself. My right hand was on the mouse -- with the mouse cursor in in the Free Agent 'groups' pane -- and I wanted to refresh the messages. Instead of moving the mouse 1 inch and clicking the "Get New Headers in Subscribed (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's OK Todd, do you know how many times I have stopped and used <Ctrl><C> and <Ctrl><V> to copy and paste instead of simply using the right mouse!!!!! (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Rassin, frassin Netscape Communicator - I WROTE THIS!!! (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uh... WHy NOT use ctrl-c and ctrl-v? I know you have the right mouse button but, IMHO, its MUCH easier to use the keyboard AND I don't risk moving the mouse when doing so Sarah (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Perhaps a Princess.... wrote in message <361d86d5.54269505@2...63.236>... (...) Because they're quite hard to do one handed? I prefer right handed mousing so ctrl-C means moving my left hand over and using the right ctrl key with my index finger (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah. I've got a QWERTY keyboard. So, indeed, the ctrl+c/v are not difficult key combinations. What kind do you have? Sarah (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Moz uses a dvorak keyboard, I think. (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Indeed I do. It means I can type more easily, as well as faster than I can think. (like that's hard :) Although to be standards-compliant it should probably be called the ',.pyf keyboard, although that is a (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ahh, man, those Dvorak keyboards ROCK! Way back when, I couple years after I learned to type (and will still learning, I guess) I wrote a typing video game which taught the Qwerty keyboard... It was quick hack to modify it to teach the Dvorak (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <361efd16.170632026@...et.com>... (...) Me too - came as a cheap extra on the C64. (...) You can get both now - Win95 has good support, and if you load the Dvorak driver in the Dos7 autoexec.bat you get Dvorak in all (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ... (...) list (...) And classical music, which is why I wondered for a bit why Dvorak was coming up in a keyboard discussion. Besides, anyone who's anyone knows to use a yamaha keyboard. Jesse ___...___ Jesse (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) NoNoNo -- the proper keys are ctrl-insert to copy and shift-insert to paste.(1) That way, I don't have to take my hand off the mouse. Steve (1) Of course, Win95's Explorer doesn't support these keystrokes. Grr. (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, the _proper_ way is for selecting text to copy it, and the middle mouse button to paste. (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uh... How does this keep you from taking your hand off the mouse? On MY keyboard, i can do ctrl+c and ctrl+v with one hand. But not reach the insert key. Sarah Heacock (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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My keyboard has two control keys, bottom row, each side... (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm left-handed. I do the cut/copy/paste keystrokes with my right-hand. Awhile ago, I was having a discussion with my dexter sister, about Window's standard accelerator keys. She was surprised that the program I wrote didn't have built-in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Perhaps a Princess.... wrote in message <3625dedc.24073841@2...63.236>... (...) They're duplicated on most keyboards - there are shift-ctrl-alt keys on both sides (for this very reason) Moz (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That still does not explain how you reach ctrl and insert with the same hand. They are on opposite sides of the keyboard for me. (...) Have been for a while. (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Maybe he uses the mouse left-handed and means the righthand keys? (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My wife is sinister as well but she drives the mouse with her right hand. In fact, I think the has told me that it is easier for her to use her right hand to mouse than the left. (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Haven't you told us you use a laptop a lot of the time? On some, maybe even most laptop keyboards the ctrl/alt/shift keys aren't duplicated on both sides, but they are on most standard keyboards. (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Must be because I'm using a laptop. Shift and alt on both sides, Ctrl on only the left. Sarah HEacock sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This was back in 1992, when Windows was still a new experience for 95% of the people. I also meant to say that my sister didn't know about the standard left-handed cut/copy/paste keystrokes. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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My favourite category of PC games is pinball simultors. (Pinball Fantasies is best of all!) As you know, in most of the pinball sim's, you use the space bar to nudge or tilt the table. I learned this trick: If the ball runs out via the side lane, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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