Windows UX Roulette:
"Will Ctrl-W actually close this file?"

@xinjinmeng This is especially fun for any software that's evolved from DOS or some other OS. The cut-copy-paste-undo set are usually intact, but anything else is chaos.

I recall the first time I tried to close FreePlane. It yelled at me about 'alt F4' not being defined. I yelled back. "I've been using Windows since before it stopped having real version numbers. Alt-F4 is damned well defined!"

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@xinjinmeng @ElectricKeet Oh, this news brings my withered gamer heart such warmth.

(Glad I keep it under my desk. My toes were getting cold.)

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