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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: Re: Discontinuous Selection
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Date: 15 Mar 89 17:18:01 GMT
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In article <586@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>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.

No, I believe it's Command-clicking that toggles the selection state of
a single list item.

>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.

Stuffit is following the Human Interface Guidelines for list selection
-- it's the Finder (in the View by Name/Kind/Size/Date states) and the
Font/DA Mover that deviate.  I'm not sure which I like better, but I
wish Apple would either change the Guidelines or write to them.

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development