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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: ETo #8
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.181836.10108@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:18:36 +1200
- References: <1992Aug10.122654.18166@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug11.230655.28810@cs.tulane.edu> <1992Aug12.135441.9857@actrix.gen.nz>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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-
- Mine arrived on Monday, but my first chance to look at it was about an hour
- and a half ago.
-
- I just checked out the editor selection bug that I was complaining about in
- this newsgroup several months ago. For those who don't remember, it happens
- when you position the insertion point somewhere in the middle of a line, and
- then press shift-down-arrow one or more times to extend the selection to the
- corresponding point in the middle of a line further down. If X denotes a
- highlighted character, and O denotes an unhighlighted one, you get a state
- that looks something like this:
-
- OOOOOOOOXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXOOOOOOOO
-
- If you now press command-shift-right-arrow, it should extend the selection
- to the end of the lower line, like this:
-
- OOOOOOOOXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-
- Instead, what actually happened was it would truncate the selection back
- to the end of the starting line, like this:
-
- OOOOOOOOXXXXXXXX
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
-
- The good news is, the bug is fixed in version 3.3a14 of the MPW Shell.
- But there are two pieces of bad news: the bug isn't fixed in 3.2.3, and
- they've managed to introduce *another* bug in 3.3a14!
-
- The new bug is as follows: position the insertion point somewhere in the
- middle of a line, as before, and press shift-up-arrow to extend the selection
- to the corresponding point in the middle of a line above:
-
- OOOOOOOOXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXOOOOOOOO
-
- Now press command-shift-right-arrow to truncate the selection to the end
- of the upper line. The result should look like this:
-
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXOOOOOOOO
-
- Instead you get this!
-
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- OOOOOOOOXXXXXXXX
-
- Oh well, maybe they'll get it right next time...
-
- Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
- Computer Services Dept fax: +64-7-838-4066
- University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
- Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
- "There has never been a question of graphical user interface in the Macintosh
- world, of course. This makes all of these products heavily mouse-dependent.
- And here more than on any other platform, Windows products can significantly
- slow performance." -- Computerworld July 20.
-