Mouse vs keyboard shortcuts was: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Trevor,

I see this inability to learn to use shortcuts here also.  There's a gal 
here who used to be our 360 operator (before my time here).  She does 
quite a bit of flip flopping between 5250 and others.  But like you said, 
takes her hands off of the keyboard to grab that mouse when there's no 
need.

Even on 5250, I like Ctrl-Insert for copy and Ctrl-Shift-Insert for paste 
versus grabbing the mouse and using pull down menus.

Actually the best transitional tool I've ever saw for keyboard shortcuts 
would have been Office Vision/400.  Each step on the drill downs slowly 
built the keyboard shortcut.  And that was even all 5250 based.  I find 
most GUI applications only show you a few.  Even IBM's PC5250 doesn't tell 
you what the shortcuts are for copy and paste.  Perhaps that is because 
many people remap that function.  Even though I find Ctrl x,c,v all being 
together causes me some fat fingered grief at times.

Rob Berendt