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- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 21:45:47 +0100
- From: nj1@ukc.ac.uk
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: Re: Proposal 6
- Precedence: bulk
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- Chris:
-
- >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.
-
- Me too.
-
- > >> 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.
-
- Exactly - safety guards like this are an excuse for poor design.... The answer
- is to get rid of the Windows/Mac 'big cursor' motion.... It really is a pain
- when it comes to writing long documents - in File Selectors it is fine, but
- otherwise, forget it.
-
- Chris, I see what you mean about all these dialogs popping up.... I can imagine
- Harry Enfield's "Now I REALLY think you didn't want to do that..." now. :)
- (For those of you who haven't seen Harry Enfield, don't worry about it)
-
- Neil.
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- Neil Jones-Rodway UNIVERSITY OF KENT
- Computer Science Student At Canterbury ####
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