Re: Key-whacking

[Sarah Mahoney <smahoney -at- U -dot- WASHINGTON -dot- EDU>]

I also use 'press' in my training and documentation, but I make sure
to distinguish from 'hold.'

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On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Pat Anderson wrote:

>         Reply to:   RE>Key-whacking
> I both agree and disagree with Mark L. Levinson: a user should never
> never never hit a key (heard some possibly fallacious story about
> some poor user actually using a hammer to whack the keyboard).

> But I do tell them to press a key.

> I make a clear distinction between pressing a key and _holding_ a key
> down. That might help solve the problem of pressing a key for too long.

> ...pat.
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