Xref: utzoo comp.editors:3179 rec.arts.sf-lovers:60193 rec.arts.books:22061 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.editors,rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.arts.books Subject: Re: What do writers want from a word processor? Message-ID: <-W9BI=9@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 13 May 91 15:41:51 GMT References: <161522@felix.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 In article <161522@felix.UUCP> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) writes: > Mouse support? Look at how most s/w for the Apple Macintosh works. > Word Perfect has mouse support, but it's an afterthot, so you can't > easily select a word or sentence. I like double-clicking a word. > I don't remember if this is availble on Mac's, but by extension you > should be able to SHIFT-double-click a sentence, or ALT-double-click a > paragraph. This speeds the work nicely. Actually, I like one editor I used that did this: every time you clicked on selected text it'd expand the selected range: click a letter, double click a word, tripple click a sentence, quad click a paragraph. Because the selected area expanded with each click you got the sort of feedback you needed, and you didn't have to remember that the sequence was click-shift- alt-command-hyper to get bigger chunks. Another thing I like, while on the subject, is incrementel search and tag search. Incremental search performs the search in realtime as you enter the search string, each character giving it more context. Tag search searches for another occurrence of the selected text. Handy for programming: just double-click an identifier and hit search-back to find its declaration. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"