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- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <memo.248344@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- On Tue, 31 May 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
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- >
- > In-Reply-To: <9405310042.AA12577@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- >
- > Yes, I agree. The action of selecting 'All' is not itself a problem - it's
- > what could happen afterwards (e.g. a delete command deleting everything
- > instead of the character that the user was expecting to delete). The simple
- > solution to this is to put a warning message on the *delete* command (and
- > any other dangerous ones) when everything is selected.
- >
- > Andre
- >
-
- I disagree. The whole problem arises from the fact that ctrl-A is TOO
- EASY to hit, so for someone to hit it accidentally is going to be a BIG
- nusance. It's something that we shouldn't have to put up with. In Atari
- Works, for example, what happens afterward is that your document is gone
- (after AW goes through its dreadfully long session of deleting your
- document one line at a time).
-
- If ctrl-A selected the current line or switched windows or something
- else, I'd still have the same complaint, because of the nuisance. But in
- this case, it's MUCH WORSE, because it does something as dangerous as
- selecting the whole document.
-
- I shouldn't NEET multiple-level UNDO just to make up for the fact that
- ctrl-a is going to be killing many people's documents for them.
-
- No, the problem is not 'selecting all'. If it were shift-F5 or something
- nearly impossible to hit accidentally, then I'd never have brought it
- up. The problem is the fact that it's too easy yo hit and causes a
- tremendous amount of damage.
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