On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:19:09AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > Can someone explain to me in words of one syllable or less why it is a > > good thing not to deselect after someone has issued a copied command? > > A user will forget exactly what he copied[1]; a quick visual reminder of what > just got copied makes for a smoother interface
So, should the selection remain a selection or just remain highlighted? For example suppose said user presses the spacebar should the selection be replaced a space or should a space be inserted where ever the cursor was? And what would happen to the highlight in such a case? If the selection is turned into a highlight after a copy is done we could turn it back into a selection if the user extends the selection. Whatever happens I think there will be a redraw problem as we suddenly discover that deselection doesn't occur when and where it should. Hopefully, it will just be a matter of finding some other place in the code to do a deselection. But the $64000 question is: Where? > sorry about the syllables thing That's okay. It's pretty tough writing in words of one syllable or less. > john > > [1] by a user, I mean me, and possibly others I'd have thought our users would have an attention span considerably longer than that of a goldfish. Allan. (ARRae) Now I'm just getting cheeky.
