[python-win32] Concerns with PythonWin documentation

[Tim Roberts]

bob gailer wrote:
> A few years ago I wrote on this subject and never had a response. 
> Since Tim has put the docs on the Web I revisited them. And I still 
> have questions and concerns. So here goes:
> ...
> Under Keyboard Bindings:
> ...
> Why is Ctrl+ followed by upper case letters when one must use the 
> lower case equivalent?

There are actually several reasons for this.

I don't know about yours, but on my keyboard, all of the alpha keys are 
labeled with upper case letters.  That is, I press the Ctrl and T keys 
to get the ASCII value 0x24, not the Ctrl and t keys.

Original ASCII, from whence these names derived, only had lowercase, 
uppercase, and control.  Ctrl-A was unambiguous, because there was no 
code for Ctrl-Shift-A.

The Ctrl+T spelling was also mandated by the old Windows User Interface 
Style Guide.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.