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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 10:16 BST-1
From: Andre Willey <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MAUS
To: gem-list@world.std.com
Message-Id: <memo.259699@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Precedence: bulk
In-Reply-To: <9406010717.AA05900=avg@mijt.cwi.nl>
In <9406010717.AA05900=avg@mijt.cwi.nl>, Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah. Would-had reasoning. OK what about this: what happens next would
> never destroy the document if Works hadn't adopted the brain-damaged
> Mac idea that a selection is 'a big cursor', so that if an ENTIRE
> DOCUMENT is selected, typing a single letter will cause the document
> to be replaced with a letter.
>
> WHEN WOULD A USER EVER WANT TO DO THAT?
>
> Answer: never.
>
> A letter replacing a selection may be okay if the selection occupies
> text containing no newlines. But otherwise it's plain nonsense.
Agreed. It's a daft concept. The cursor and the 'selected block' should be
different concepts (how else do you quickly move a block?). If you want to
replace a block with some other text, you first select the block (at which
point the cursor should move to the first character after the block, but
*not* remain locked there), then delete the block - or better, Cut it. Then
just type in the new text.
What we could do with is a keyboard shortcut for delete block, as well as cut
block. Control+Shift+Delete, perhaps? (although, as someone pointed out, that
is alarmingly close to Control+Alt+Delete, which *is* a dangerous key
combination to hit by accident. I do wish that gave a warning prompt).
Andre
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