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- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Christopher Taylor Oates <aspect@cats.ucsc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Proposal 6
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
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- On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, Alexander Clauss wrote:
-
- >
- > >> 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?
-
- I support it.
-
- >
- > 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.
-
- No! I hate the "throw another dialog box at the problem" solution. It
- reminds me of the Mac disk formatting 3 dialog nightmare. Next there
- will be the "are you really sure you want to do that?" dialog, then we'll
- see a dialog after every keypress asking "did you really mean to type the
- letter g?" I prefer the other way.
- I think that changing select all to control shift A is not only the
- simplest, but also the most "elegant" solution, since it does not
- require more dialogs (gee, I just hit control a when typing dialogs and
- screen redrew the window. control a strikes again) or eliminating the
- well-accepted "big cursor" paradigm or changing it to have different
- contextual meanings depending on whether one has selected the entire
- document or only part of it. I _like_ double clicking on words and
- replacing them by just typing. I do that many times in Atariworks, as
- well as selecting areas and simply hitting backspace to delete them. THe
- only real problem is control A and (to a much lesser extent) shift
- backspace. But, UNDO solves both problems, and I'm getting in the habit
- of hitting caps lock when I am going to type large amounts of things in
- all caps. If we cannot agree on control shift a, then I think we should
- leave it alone.
-
- ~Chris
-
- > --
- > Alexander Clauss aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
- >
- >
-