Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!boulder!stan!dce
From: dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Discontinuous Selection
Message-ID: <586@salgado.stan.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 16:15:44 GMT
References: <3912@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In article <3912@crash.cts.com> roberts@crash.cts.com (Robert Schwalbe) writes:
>How does one employ "shift-click" selecting _without_ causing a 
>continuous selection?  That is, selecting text items from a get
>window - ala standard file, but *not* in a given order.

Well, in the case of StuffIt, assuming that one has paid the shareware
fee and received the latest update, one reads the documentation and
finds that the using Option instead of Shift allows discontinuous
selection.  Sorry -- I couldn't resist.

I do wish that programmers would be a little more consistent, though.
StuffIt's behavior is anomalous, even if it is generally what you
want.

-- 
David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno