From: Oliver Hardt (hardt@u.arizona.edu)
Date: 11 Mar 01, 02:42 EST
From: Oliver Hardt <hardt@u.arizona.edu> Subject: Re: A few issues... there is nothing hard to grasp about it, John. Usually you start selecting after you have navigated to a starting point. that is, if you may think about it for a minute, someting different than having selected a huge amount of text and then going one character too far -- correcting this movement by going one step back causes the starting point to move and you can start again. No matter what kind of selection method one prefers, I do not think that there is one that is better than the other in absolute terms. There should simply be a possibilty to decide for yourself which method you'd like to use. And, yes, John, you concluded correclty, "alt" means "option". Sorry if that confused you for a while -- the keyboard of my Mac here has two labels on this particular key. Olli. At 10:27 AM -0500 on 3/10/01, you wrote on topic 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. _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers