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From: crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (Nyuck! Nyuck!) Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click Ok to discard
Message-ID: <2340@cpsc6a.att.com>
Date: 11 Oct 89 20:35:04 GMT
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utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
< hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) writes:
< < [ Description of perils of discarding shift-selected files ]
< 
< This is not a bug; it did just what you asked...
<
< ...if you are about to shift-select several icons, first click on a
< workbench window's background to make sure nothing is already
< selected.
<          Todd M. Lewis

I've seen this answer in several responses, but I am confused.  If you
want to shift-select a group of icons, you don't need the shift key
depressed for the first selection; only the second and subsequent
selections require it.  By NOT depressing the shift key when you make
your first selection, any other selected drawer and/or file icons will be
de-selected automagically :-).

It would seem to me that never shift-selecting a first selection would
be a good habit to develop.

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