On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:46:28 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
<no****@nowhere.com> wrote:
"Christian Blackburn" <my*********@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@g49g2000cwa.googleg roups.com... Hi Gang,
In most programs Ctrl+A is Select All. I'm inclined to use the most
common keyboard shortcuts, whenever possible. What are the names of
some programs that have a key assigned for select none and what key do
they use?
I think I'm going to go with Ctrl+ (Minus Sign), but I'm interested in
people's suggestions.
ESC ?
ESC (Escape) seems to be used for that purpose in some programs (e.g.
TextPad), but does not seem to be a standard (for example, it
is not used in NotePad or WinWord). The shortcut summary I
linked to in my previous post only mentions ESC in a few other
contexts.
I stay away from ESC in my own programs for one specific reason:
Let's say I have started a huge download using Internet Explorer.
After download has completed, up pops a dialog telling me that
the 100MB file is being copied from the IE cache to the location
I selected when I started the download. This dialog has a Cancel
button which reacts to the ESC key. Suppose I was working with
a program that made extensive use of the ESC key. Suppose I
hit the ESC key a split second after the IE download dialog forced
itself to the foreground. BAM! There goes my download and I'll
have to search for it in my IE cache, hoping it is still there.
This, and similar things, have happened to me from time to time.
So I stay away from ESC.
Just my $0.02.
/Joergen Bech
PS: For some of the reasons outlined above, I use Net Transport
as my download agent nowadays:
http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm