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> All late-era DOS stuff, and Windows >= 3.x, Mac OS X and ~all Linux GUIs are compliant. CUA was "influenced" by the old Mac OS Human Interface Guide mid/end
by lispm 3y ago
> All late-era DOS stuff, and Windows >= 3.x, Mac OS X and ~all Linux GUIs are compliant.
CUA was "influenced" by the old Mac OS Human Interface Guide mid/end 80s.
The influence on macOS (as it is called now) is tiny. macOS is mostly not compliant.
- lproven 3y agoOh, yes, absolutely. CUA was 100% clearly IBM's response to the Apple HIG. But it was a good one and mostly it's won. It did adopt Apple's Ctrl-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste, but that's about all. Mac OS X isn't very compliant, no, but it's quite a bit closer than Classic MacOS was, and I find that very welcome. The menus, the hotkeys, the editing keys and so on mostly just work. All you do is use Cmd instead of Ctrl and it becomes invisible.
- lispm 3y agoOn the Mac its easy. Command-A selects all text. Control-a moves to the beginning of a line. Both in Apple's Textedit and in Emacs on the Mac. > Cmd instead of Ctrl For half of the keys this won't work. For example the Function keys. Search something is Command-F. On Windows next search is F3. On the Mac it is Command-G. F3 for search does not work on the Mac. Worse, to type F3 on a Macbook keyboard I need to press World-F3. My personal favorite would be to have a modern clone of the Symbolics keyboard... the "keymacs" keyboard, in the version with the original Symbolics keyboard layout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl8CGGOrxXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl8CGGOrxXE Available from https://keymacs.com https://keymacs.com .