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From: garya@stan.com (Gary Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: selections and highlighting
Message-ID: <287@stan.com>
Date: 7 Dec 88 00:03:22 GMT
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> Yup, this is a feature: the user-interface people say that selections should
> provide visual feedback to the user indicating what has been chosen.  This is
> different from cut buffers which just salt away the text that had been
> selected.  
> 

I would take issue with this.  The visual feedback is only important as long
as the selection is central to the current operations which the user is
involved in.  Otherwise, it gets in the way and in fact makes negative
contributions to user productivity.

Seems to me it would be a lot friendlier to have it work as it did in R2,
and provide a selection display client which constantly showed the current
selection.  This gives the best of both worlds.