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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher Taylor Oates <aspect@cats.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Re: Proposal 6
To: gem-list@world.std.com
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On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, Alexander Clauss wrote:
>
> >> 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?
I support it.
>
> 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.
No! I hate the "throw another dialog box at the problem" solution. It
reminds me of the Mac disk formatting 3 dialog nightmare. Next there
will be the "are you really sure you want to do that?" dialog, then we'll
see a dialog after every keypress asking "did you really mean to type the
letter g?" I prefer the other way.
I think that changing select all to control shift A is not only the
simplest, but also the most "elegant" solution, since it does not
require more dialogs (gee, I just hit control a when typing dialogs and
screen redrew the window. control a strikes again) or eliminating the
well-accepted "big cursor" paradigm or changing it to have different
contextual meanings depending on whether one has selected the entire
document or only part of it. I _like_ double clicking on words and
replacing them by just typing. I do that many times in Atariworks, as
well as selecting areas and simply hitting backspace to delete them. THe
only real problem is control A and (to a much lesser extent) shift
backspace. But, UNDO solves both problems, and I'm getting in the habit
of hitting caps lock when I am going to type large amounts of things in
all caps. If we cannot agree on control shift a, then I think we should
leave it alone.
~Chris
> --
> Alexander Clauss aclauss@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
>
>