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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 04:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt McCabe <mbmccabe@bronze.coil.com>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.253871@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.07.9406010432.D9596-a100000@bronze.coil.com>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Andre Willey wrote:
> 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.
I agree...automatically deleting an entire document after Select All
simply by continuing typing seems a little wacky.
Wouldn't a simple "Y/N to frag. your document?" dialog be simple and
correct?
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
-=-=-=-=- Matt McCabe -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- mbmccabe@bronze.coil.com -=-=-=-=-