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#What should HELP do?

    10-Apr-89 14:14:26
Fm: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006
To: John Draper 76703,4322
Larry, While I see Don's point, and agree with it to a degree, there IS a reason for changing the way it's done right now. I don't know of any programs now that will give context sensitive help dependent upon mouse position (that doesn't mean none exist, I just don't know about them). By not supporting the Help key as you propose, things will remain as they are. How many applications offer context sensitive help now? How many would if the Help key were a system function? I'd say almost all — if from competitive pressure alone or from user pressure (what's this? No help? An incomplete program, I wonder what else is missing — maybe I should look for spelling errors too <grin>). -sja