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From: steffen@ihu1h.UUCP (Joe Steffen)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: copying and moving text with a mouse
Message-ID: <217@ihu1h.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-May-84 16:22:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 16:22:21 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 9-May-84 02:39:29 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Mouse-based text editors allow you to select an area of text by
sweeping-out a rectangle on the screen, which is highlighted. These editors
usually have a pop-up menu that you use to select whether you want the text
moved, copied, or deleted.  If it is to be moved or copied, you also
indicate the destination location with the mouse.

My questions are, assuming a multi-button mouse:

What is the best/preferred/natural/etc. order of these operations, that is,
should you select the text first or the move/copy/delete operation?  

Should the destination location be the next place pointed to by the mouse,
or should you have to select put-back on a copy/delete/put-back menu?

If you have a copy/delete/put-back menu, and delete is selected, should
subsequent text selections be deleted as soon as they are swept out with a
mouse? 

If you had only a single-button mouse, or only wanted to use one button of
a multi-button mouse, how does that affect the answers to the above
questions?
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	Joe Steffen, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL, (312) 979-5381