zz: HEY! We can control FOUR WINDOWS!

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Except of course that this prevents the existing use of the numbers.

Oh yeah.  I forgot that we use them in lots of commands :-(

>I think if we go to more than two windows we may want an input method
>that can be generalised to an arbitrary number of windows.

Fer sure.  But if we have to live with the stupid
 special-case PC keyboards, we might as well
 get special-case use out of them.

I'll think of a philosophically offensive and narly,
 yet annoyingly smooth and simple way to get
 four windows out of this!  Or my name's not Squack Grmf.

ChrzT


At 11:39 AM 9/29/98 +1000, you wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:30:21AM +0900, Ted Nelson wrote:
>> We have four arrow-sets on a standard PC keyboard--
>>  diamond esfc
>>  diamoond ijl,
>>  arrow keys
>>  AND THE NUMERIC KEYPAD!
>> 
>> That means that we can have four different windows
>>  with four different arrowsets-- ASSUMING that we
>>  set NumLock ON, so the numbers are numbers
>>  instead of arrows !-)
>
>Except of course that this prevents the existing use of the numbers.
>I think if we go to more than two windows we may want an input method
>that can be generalised to an arbitrary number of windows.
>
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