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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.055719.11064@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Jun 91 05:57:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.150149.16969@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5342@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5353@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1414@cbmger.UUCP>
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

>In article <5353@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>
>>   * double-click in a word processing application and a whole word 
>>     is selected.  If you then drag the mouse, the selection region
>>     grows by word boundaries.  

>Ok for a word. But to select a greater area, why not just click at the
>beginning (*ONCE*) and drag the mouse to the end? Many Amiag programs
>do it this way. Is there really always needed a double-click?

  You can do this on the Mac, but the double click-drag means that you want
the selection to jump by word boundaries, rather than character boundaries.
This is extremely useful because you don't end up fluffing around trying to
position the mouse in the region of a single character [especially painful
with 9 point fonts].  I'd say at least 90% of the time, you want to select
a group of full words when editing text, so this actually ends up being
a time saver.

>>   * shift-click to extend selection ranges.  Go to the top of your
>>     word processing document and click.  Go to the bottom and
>>     shift-click.  The range in between will be selected.  

>As stated above, this also works with dragging. Even the famous
>AmigaBasic editor scrolls its window thus expanding the selected range,
>when you drag the mouse below or over the top of the window.

  Same on Mac programs.  But once again, Shift Clicking is a lot faster 
when you have a 600 page document.

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