From: Oliver Hardt (hardt@u.arizona.edu)
Date: 11 Mar 01, 02:12 EST
From: Oliver Hardt <hardt@u.arizona.edu> Subject: Re: A few issues... Hello: I absolutely agree with David's comments concerning the cursor selection behavior. No matter whether there are other apps that do it like Alpha (e.g. Eudora), the biggest problem with this behavior is, from my perspective, that you as a user are not allowed to make an error when selecting text -- since a backward movement will change the selection's starting point. Perhaps a selection behavior could be implemented that is bound to a modifier key, so that upon pressing "alt-shift"+arrowKey, the fixed selection point behavior will govern text selection. Olli. >(3) Text selection via the cursor keys works unlike every other Mac >application I've used--when you're holding down shift and moving the >cursor to extend a selection, some cursor movements cause your original >starting point to move rather than shrinking the selection a bit. >(Example: put the cursor after the colon in this sentence, hold shift, >and press up twice and right three times. In a normal application, the >selection will begin with the "t" in "selection" and end with the colon; >in Alpha, the selection will begin with the space after "to" and end with >the "p" in "put". I was trying to look at the preferences to see if there >was some way to change this behavior when I ran into item (1) above. _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers