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- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 94 18:39 MET DST
- From: chris@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Christian Nieber)
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: Re: Control A
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:
-
- > Ofir says control A is not open for discussion; Tim Miller replies:
- >
- > > I think is most certainly IS open for discussion. The fact that is has
- > > been brought up and demonstrated to be potentially hazzardous is enough
- > > to make it important.
- >
- > Well it HAS been discussed for more than a week now and the results are
- > clear. Control A is there to stay (although I'd settle for adding shift
- > and having control A for deselect all). Let's close the discussion Now.
-
- I really can't see what this fuss about CTRL A is all about.
- In papyrus I solved the text loss danger like this:
- When the whole text is marked via mark all/CTRL A, a flag is set that the
- block is non-overwriteable. Delete works (after all there is still Undo),
- but when the user tries to overwrite it, the block is deselected and the typing
- ends up at the beginning of the document.
-
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