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From: steffen@ihu1h.UUCP (Joe Steffen)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: copying and moving text with a mouse
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 17:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 17:23:11 1984
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The mailed replys to my article are unanimously in favor of selecting the
text before selecting the operation, because this is modeless.  The number
of mouse buttons was irrelevant.

This "select object then select operation" method prompts me to ask another
question: Should window control work the same way?

My only experience is with the Teletype 5620 (aka Blit).  In the jim editor
you select the object (text) before the operation.  But in the layers
window manager, you select the operation (new/delete/etc.), the mouse
cursor icon changes based on the operation, and then you sweep out a new
window, select the window to be deleted, etc.
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	Joe Steffen, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL, (312) 979-5381