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In article <3695e03d...@news.demon.co.uk>, John Birch <nospam> wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:16:07 GMT, se...@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
>wrote:
>>In article <36952AD4...@danet.com>, J. Benz <be...@danet.com> wrote:
>>>overwrites the old text that is there.  'Delete' works similarly to the
>>>backspace, but as, well, errr... forward space - it deletes the character
>>>under the cursor and 'pulls' the rest of the line to the left.

>>I really like this behavior.  I got used to it on the Amiga, where backspace
>>was backspace and delete was delete.

>I personally find it annoying, but that's me. AFAI am concerned, the
>keyboard ought to be optimised for those actions most commonly used.
>Toggling between insert and overstrike mode does not come high on my
>list of priorities! I am happy with the pull left delete tho'. :-)

Oh, I wasn't talking about the incomprehensible toggle, just the BS and DEL
behavior.

>While we're off topic, any feelings on the way that highlighting stuff
>with shift and cursor keys works. I always find that the highlighting
>jumps to the wrong point, never seems to end up at the end of the para
>or whatever, but always jumps to the start of the next line etc.

It works mostly correctly on the Mac, completely wrong in Windows, and mostly
wrong in Netscape.

When you have a block selected, cursor-right should put the cursor immediately
after, and cursor-left immediately before, the selected area.  This is "what
you mean".

-s
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