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- From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Selecting and deleting in BCW
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.123312.25164@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 12:33:12 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of North Florida
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- During my travels in text editors on windowing systems, there's been
- one feature they've all seemed to shared:
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- When you select a block of text with the mouse and then either start
- typing *or* press the DEL key, then the selected text will be deleted.
- In the case of typing after a selection, the new text entered will
- replace what was previously selected.
-
- This is not what happens in BC++ for Windows. When you mark a section of
- text and start typing, the marked text does not get deleted. When you
- mark a section of text and press the DEL key, the text does not get
- deleted. I would like to change this default behavior but I cannot
- find out how.
-
- This brings up an inconsitency in the Borland windows-hosted products...
-
- In Resource Workshop, when you edit a resource as text, the above
- "selection rule" I've stated is followed.
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- Next time you're in your favorite word processor on Windows, try what
- I've just suggested with the selecting of text and then start to
- type or press the DEL key. I'll bet you the "selection rule"
- holds.
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- I would like to suggest to Borland that they change the default behavior
- of BCW in regard to the "selection rule" because it is not only
- inconsistent with their Resource Workshop text editing (which does it
- the "right way", IMHO) but also a vast majority of text editing and word
- processing packages hosted on Windows as well.
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-
- Steve Hite
- shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
-