Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!dawyd From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Problems with Command-Q for shutdown Summary: Why not use Command-S? Message-ID: <451@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:46:53 GMT References: <550@halley.UUCP> <8400148@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton) Distribution: usa Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept. Lines: 27 In article <8400148@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >/* Written 3:43 pm Aug 7, 1989 by cy@dbase.UUCP in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ >> And why not have Shutdown as a Command-Q equivalent on the File >> Menu, as well? >/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ > >Well, I did this a year ago with ResEdit. [Various problematic scenarios with nasty accidental shutdowns deleted] >A beginner would scream bloody murder about this; I simply curse and >tell myself to be more careful. I understand why Apple hasn't added >command-Q = shutdown to the finder menu. It's dangerous. Since the problem seems to be hitting command-Q accidentally, why not use a different command key combination? I've used command-S for shutdown for a while. Works fine, with little possibility for error (at least in the Finder). -- David Walton Internet: dawyd@tartarus.UChicago.EDU U. Chicago Computer { Any opinions are my own, not those } Science Macintosh Lab { of my employers (or anybody else). }