how to print "source file", plus a mild rant

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I can't agree more that keyboard shortcuts are "everyday keys" that can
simplify tasks in several situations.  Although I prefer Shift-delete,
Shift-insert,Ctrl-insert for cut, paste, and copy respectivly because it is
more intutive than Ctrl-x,v,c.  But, have you tried Ctrl-P with the point in
question? I had the same results as the originator of this topic, that when the
view source is the active window Ctrl-P still prints out the web page as seen
on the browser not the source code as text.  I have always used the method as
suggested to copy, paste , and print.

Back to keys, in win3.x and 95 it is quite usefull to know a few keyboard
shortcuts for cases like if the mouse becomes disabled and you want to save
that file before rebooting.  The ALT key is very useful pulling up menus and
changing to other running programs.  The Ctrl-ESC combination will bring up the
start menu to allow proper shutdown.

Thomas
Bob Duncan wrote:

> At 05:14 PM 3/3/98, phgray wrote:
> >4.X does not seem to provide that option - and as the writer has noted -
> >the built in viewer does not allow printing.
>
> But it does. As a previous message pointed out, Ctrl-P will do the job, *as
> it does in just about every other PC application.*
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something (a pet peeve,
> sorry) that I think escapes many Web surfers I've encountered: browsers are
> *not* magical entities, they are just another piece of software. As such,
> most of the common keyboard shortcuts available in other applications are
> available in Netscape, or IE, or whatever, regardless of version or
> platform. And most actions can *usually* be carried out whether or not
> those actions appear conveniently on a button or in a menu (as long as the
> action is appropriate to the situation).
>
> In every PC application I use, Ctrl-P will bring up a Print dialog just as
> Ctrl-A will select all the text on a page and Ctrl-C will copy the current
> selection to the clipboard and Ctrl-N will open a new window, etc., etc.,
> etc. (Macs use the Command key instead of Ctrl, but the letters are the
> same.) Knowledge of this sort comes in real handy when you're looking for a
> particular chunk of source code and you know that Ctrl-F will bring up a
> Find dialog regardless of whether you're in IE or Netscape or Word or Excel
> or Eudora or most anything else. Or when you've just copied a text string
> and you want to paste it into that Find dialog but there's no Paste command
> available because there's no Edit menu---Ctrl-V will do it, whether you're
> in IE or Netscape or Word or whatever.
>
> Keyboard shortcuts are more than just insidious teenage work-arounds to
> menu-less browser windows; they're useful tools that we should all know,
> use, and teach.
>
> Bob Duncan
>
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>   David Bishop Skillman Library
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