[softwarelist] Re: Key shortcut (OT on this list)
- From: Frederick Bambrough <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 23:14:56 +0100
In message <dbbba48753.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2013 Frederick Bambrough <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In message <3IpKt7BIX5KSFwVL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In message <53879bf21fdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes
> >> <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >>>Why does this (slightly naughty word) programme not use the universal
> >>> Ctrl+ A to Select all the text? Particularly as the Win OvPro has
Ctrl+A to
> >>>select all text.
> >>
> >> What is the standard on RISC OS...
> >>
> >> I have a dim memory about this, maybe it was felt that Ctrl+A was too
> >> easy to mix up with caps lock.
> >>
> >> (sat at keyboard which has had caps lock key removed)
>
> > Out of curiosity I tried Zap, Edit, StrongED, Pipedream, Fireworkz,
Ovation
> > Pro & the Messenger Pro editor. Only the last two had any concept of
select
> > all text at all. The others seem to depend entirely on dragging (unless
they
> > have combinations that aren't described on menus?). Messenger uses CTRL
A.
>
> Not true for StrongED, though it's slightly different there. Menu >
> Block > Select > Text, or Control-A twice. So it seems that the use of
> Control-A is far from universal, though perhaps the use of selecting
> the whole text is more common, but maybe by other means.
Just to confuse, version 4.69 of SE seems to have changed 'Select' to 'Mark'
then.
--
Fred
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