From: Jon Guyer (jguyer@his.com)
Date: 11 Mar 01, 02:27 EST
From: Jon Guyer <jguyer@his.com> Subject: Re: A few issues... At 8:12 AM -0700 3/10/01, Oliver Hardt wrote: >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 -- Nor are you with the alternative. What is so hard to grasp about that? Alpha's way does not permit you contract your selection. Your way does not permit you to expand the beginning of your selection. With your model, if you misplace your anchor, you're screwed. Bare Bones' products are the only ones I know of that have a scheme that lets you both expand and contract both ends of your selection. The way they've done it is more than a little disconcerting at first, but it's quite powerful. >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. "alt" would be what? <option>? That behavior is already defined by the HIG; it changes the selection by a word. It's almost certainly better to have a global preference to change the selection model. -- Jonathan E. Guyer <http://www.his.com/jguyer/> _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers