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- Date: Tue, 31 May 94 20:12 BST-1
- From: Andre Willey <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.253871@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405311330.A24733-0100000@undergrad>
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- In <Pine.3.87.9405311330.A24733-0100000@undergrad>,
- millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu wrote:
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- > 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.
-
- NO. 'Select all' never causes any damage at all, in any application
- that I'm aware of. It's what you do *next* that matters. If Atari Works
- deletes the whole of a document as a result of typing a single character
- when the entire document is already selected, then it should be summarily
- taken out and shot.
-
- Andre
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