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- From: "Rainer Riedl" <Rainer.Riedl@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 16:03:59 MET-1
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Priority: normal
- Message-Id: <C2C7901816@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- > > > (Atari works has the added danger that entered text REPLACES whatever is
- > > > highlighted, a-la AppleMac)
- >
- > I think our proposal should also have general guidelines about selections,
- > clipboard and shift/control/alt-drag etc. One thing we could say is that
-
- good idea!
-
- > the Macintosh style selection where entered text replaces the selection
- > WITHOUT STORING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE is very bad practice (a good way of
- > distinguishing ourselves from the Mac).
-
- I like 'text replaces...' very much. I sometimes have to work with WinWord.
- There Undo works and so it's no problem. (The only problem is Windows :-)) )
-
- bye,
- Rainer
-