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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.248344@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405311330.A24733-0100000@undergrad>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <9405310042.AA12577@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
>
> Yes, I agree. The action of selecting 'All' is not itself a problem - it's
> what could happen afterwards (e.g. a delete command deleting everything
> instead of the character that the user was expecting to delete). The simple
> solution to this is to put a warning message on the *delete* command (and
> any other dangerous ones) when everything is selected.
>
> Andre
>
I disagree. The whole problem arises from the fact that ctrl-A is TOO
EASY to hit, so for someone to hit it accidentally is going to be a BIG
nusance. It's something that we shouldn't have to put up with. In Atari
Works, for example, what happens afterward is that your document is gone
(after AW goes through its dreadfully long session of deleting your
document one line at a time).
If ctrl-A selected the current line or switched windows or something
else, I'd still have the same complaint, because of the nuisance. But in
this case, it's MUCH WORSE, because it does something as dangerous as
selecting the whole document.
I shouldn't NEET multiple-level UNDO just to make up for the fact that
ctrl-a is going to be killing many people's documents for them.
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.