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- From: Alexander Clauss <aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
- Subject: Re: Proposal 6
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 12:29:39 MESZ
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
- Precedence: bulk
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- >> Ctrl-A = Deselect marked (all), i.e. "Abandon" selection
- >> Shift-Ctrl-A = Select all
- >I support this method. I think T. Miller also supports it. That makes
- >three. Anyone else?
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- No. (I hope so ;-)
- I like the way 7up V2.2 (a German shareware texteditor) solves the
- 'dangerous' Ctrl-A problem:
- You just selected the whole text with Ctrl-A. If you type any letter now,
- 7up will ask in an alert box if you really want to overwrite the whole
- text. 7up doesn't ask, if you delete, cut or move the marked text.
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- In this way, there is no danger in Ctrl-A. What do you think about it,
- Timothy? Maybe, we can stop the Ctrl-A discussion if we agree that all
- programers should support this (or a similar) method to prevent the loss
- of the text by mistake.
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- Alexander Clauss aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
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