Hi Nemesis,

thanks a lot for your answer. Yes, you might be surprised to hear now, that 
I knew the key combination. But my point is, that there are various types of 
users each with his or her own habits of using a computer program.

The point I want to make, is that the editor should just accomodate as many 
types as usage profiles as it makes sense. Yes, I know the key combination. 
But I am one of those freaky but nice guys who prefer easy mouse 
reachability for some cases, despite of using key combinations also for some 
other purposes. In case of the POV-Ray editor, I really miss the certain 
ease if it comes to close a file.

A program is well done, if it supports the majority of usage profiles.

Ah, but don't take me wrong, Nemesis: I appreciate your answer, and it is 
interesting to hear about your opinion. Truly thanks,

Sven




"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> "Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote:
>> Greetings!
>
> heya!
>
>> But it is still
>> kind of uncomfortable to close a file (close a tab).
>> I always had to use a right-click and then again to move
>> inside its popup menu to click finally on "Close File", or I had to click 
>> on
>> "File" (insie the regular menu), then to click again on "Close".
>
> or you can just press CTRL+F4. :)
>
> Frankly, i'm a very anti-mouse man.  It's one of the most unproductive 
> tools
> there is.  It's only great when you're beginning to learn how to 
> communicate
> to computers and just go "clicking" everywhere to see what happens.  It 
> also
> used to be a nice tool for graphic designers, but pen and tablets are the
> norm these days.
>
> For programming and every text-editing related tasks, mouse and menus 
> suck,
> as you stop what you're doing, move your hand away from the editing
> keyboard area and waits as the menus "pop down" and show you options.  I
> mean, about one week of constantly messing with a GUI program and you're
> likely to have already decorated all the options in all menus and knows
> exactly where each one is at each menu -- why should you wait for them to
> showup?!  You're likely to even have decorated all shortcuts by repetitive
> usage and they simply come over as naturally as walking...
>
> Try it.  Try to forget the mouse for a while and just work your way 
> through
> the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts for commands or menu options.  Even
> when working in Photoshop it saves you a lot of time! :D
>
> BTW, ALT+f, then c does the same as CTRL+F4, however, doing it by 
> keyboard,
> though you barely even see the menu popup...
>
>
>

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