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From: Alexander Clauss <aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
Subject: Re: Proposal 6
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 12:29:39 MESZ
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
Precedence: bulk
>> 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?
No. (I hope so ;-)
I like the way 7up V2.2 (a German shareware texteditor) solves the
'dangerous' Ctrl-A problem:
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.
In this way, there is no danger in Ctrl-A. What do you think about it,
Timothy? Maybe, we can stop the Ctrl-A discussion if we agree that all
programers should support this (or a similar) method to prevent the loss
of the text by mistake.
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Alexander Clauss aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de