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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click icon type
Message-ID: <1274@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 22:39:11 GMT
References: <4657@ncar.ucar.edu> <8133@cbmvax.UUCP> <138@cbmtor.UUCP>
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <138@cbmtor.UUCP> jb@cbmtor.UUCP (Jim Butterfield ) writes:
>   2. Everything multiply-selected must be within one drawer or disk.

How about a simple modification of this:  shift-clicking something in a
drawer while while the drawer is selected has the effect of de-selecting
the drawer.  It's a hack, no doubt about it, but it would serve to
lessen the danger of deleting or moving a whole drawer when you just
meant to delete or move a few files.  This has gotten me, too.  I can't
right now see why you'd want to select a drawer and some of its contents
at the same time, anyway.

>(Does anyone
>really multiply select icons scattered across many drawers/disks?)

Occasionally.

-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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