From: Jon Guyer (jguyer@his.com)
Date: 11 Mar 01, 10:05 EST
From: Jon Guyer <jguyer@his.com> Subject: Re: how does BBEdit do it? (was Re: A few issues...) At 1:09 PM -0800 3/10/01, Albert Davidson Chou mashed into one long unreadable block of text: > >At 9:31 AM -0800 3/10/01, Albert Davidson Chou wrote:>>>Not to >beat a dead horse, but just out of curiosity, what _are_ >Bare>>Bones's key>>sequences for this? I wasn't able to figure it >out trying for>>myself in BBEdit>>5.1.1, nor looking in its Apple >Guide.>>Let's see if I can explain it. Click before 'C' at the >beginning of >this sentence, hit <up><up><right><right> and you get >a selection >from 'e' in "Apple" to 'l' in "Click". Same behavior >that Alpha and >others have. The difference is that <left><left> >contracts the >selection back to before 'C' in "Click". Hit ><down><up><left> to >switch the active end and expand the selection >to include the 'l' in >"Apple".Ack! Thphfft! I'm a longtime user >of both vi and EMACS, and the above still seems like an abomination. >But I guess it wouldn't hurt to implement the above behavior for the >sake of BBEdit die-hards (as long as it isn't bound to any keys that >are commonly used for something less abominable <g>).Al-- Albert >Davidson ChouGet answers to Mac questions at >http://www.mac-mgrs.org/ . :::I'm a longtime user of both vi and EMACS::: Let me guess. You used them both, simultaneously to format your message. 8^P I have no intention of making BBEdit's behavior the default. I've heard from some BBEdit users who would like to see it duplicated in Alpha and it gave me some ideas of how to do things better in Alpha. That's all. -- 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