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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 19:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.253871@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405311942.C27706-0100000@undergrad>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405311330.A24733-0100000@undergrad>
>
> In <Pine.3.87.9405311330.A24733-0100000@undergrad>,
> millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu wrote:
>
> > No, the problem is not 'selecting all'. If it were shift-F5 or
> > something nearly impossible to hit accidentally, then I'd never have
> > brought it up. The problem is the fact that it's too easy yo hit
> > and causes a tremendous amount of damage.
>
> NO. 'Select all' never causes any damage at all, in any application
> that I'm aware of. It's what you do *next* that matters. If Atari Works
> deletes the whole of a document as a result of typing a single character
> when the entire document is already selected, then it should be summarily
> taken out and shot.
>
> Andre
>
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.
If Ctrl-A did not select the whole document, then the following keypresses
would not destroy the document. Therefore, get rid of Ctrl-A and you have
solved the problem.