A quickfill problem and an enhancement suggestion

[Derek Atkins]

Paul Abrahams <abrahams at acm.org> writes:

> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:22:07 AM Derek Atkins wrote:
>> David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>  
>> > Continuing along this line, if the up arrow and down arrow selected
>> > alternate choices or opened a list of alternates to choose from, that
>> > would make me a very happy camper.
>> 
>> That's also a very good suggestion.
>
> That's good as far as it goes -- but what if you want to type something that 
> isn't already in the set of alternatives?  The up-arrow/down-arrow convention 
> does not conflict with the initial-backspace/escape convention.  They could 
> happily coexist.

Of course.  They are not mutually exclusive.

> Paul

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-derek

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