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Parks, Beverly wrote:
> I use "press". That's what you do with buttons, you press them. That is
> even the visual effect you get when you perform the action.
So how do you differentiate keyboard input vs. buttons on the screen?
That is, do you also say "Press the Enter key"? Or are you one of the
more violent types that uses "Hit" or "Strike"? (Just kidding...) ;-)
To me, reading the command "Click" tells my brain to "use my mouse to
move the pointer to the appropriate place on the screen - a button for
instance -- and click the left mouse button once." The term "click", in
the software documentation world, automatically implies using a mouse
(or non-keyboard input device?).
My US$.02 worth.
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