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- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 10:16 BST-1
- From: Andre Willey <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.259699@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <9406010717.AA05900=avg@mijt.cwi.nl>
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- In <9406010717.AA05900=avg@mijt.cwi.nl>, Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl wrote:
- > > Right, but what happens next ALWAYS happens. Select-All is not the
- > > source of the problem (from some point of view or other), but what
- > > happens next would never destroy the document if the document had
- > > not been selected.
- >
- > Ah. Would-had reasoning. OK what about this: what happens next would
- > never destroy the document if Works hadn't adopted the brain-damaged
- > Mac idea that a selection is 'a big cursor', so that if an ENTIRE
- > DOCUMENT is selected, typing a single letter will cause the document
- > to be replaced with a letter.
- >
- > WHEN WOULD A USER EVER WANT TO DO THAT?
- >
- > Answer: never.
- >
- > A letter replacing a selection may be okay if the selection occupies
- > text containing no newlines. But otherwise it's plain nonsense.
-
- Agreed. It's a daft concept. The cursor and the 'selected block' should be
- different concepts (how else do you quickly move a block?). If you want to
- replace a block with some other text, you first select the block (at which
- point the cursor should move to the first character after the block, but
- *not* remain locked there), then delete the block - or better, Cut it. Then
- just type in the new text.
-
- What we could do with is a keyboard shortcut for delete block, as well as cut
- block. Control+Shift+Delete, perhaps? (although, as someone pointed out, that
- is alarmingly close to Control+Alt+Delete, which *is* a dangerous key
- combination to hit by accident. I do wish that gave a warning prompt).
-
- Andre
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