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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Grabbing text (was: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History?)
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.235950.7800@sics.se>
Date: 7 Oct 90 23:59:50 GMT
References: <10592@goofy.Apple.COM>
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Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In <10592@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:'

>I told him, "Just point anywhere in the word and do a double-click: hit 
>the button twice in rapid succession."  A look of pure technological 

 I like the easy way to select words in the Apple user interface. But there is
one thing I don't understand: why do we have to select commands (either by
menus or by a key-combination) to *move* text?

 Why can't whe just grab the selected text and drag it to the place we want to
put it? In some programs you could move paragraphs by dragging, but you 
can't find anything about it in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG).

 In AHIG we could find the famous shift-click and the (almost) newer-
imlemented Apple-click (discontinius selection). But what's so wrong with a
<mysterious key>-click for grabbing/dragging text around?


   /Olle