Re: patch for select in zvt

[michaeld senet com au]

Ben Ford wrote:
> Nathan Hurst wrote:
> >On Tue, 15 May 2001, Iain wrote:
> >
> >>This is a nicer way than the Windows.
> >>iain
> >>
> >>>The classic solution to this on Macintosh is that a drag that starts with 
> >>>a double-click selects words at a time and a drag that starts with a 
> >>>triple-click selects lines at a time.
> >>>
> >
> >Absolutely!  This is the nicest way proposed so far.  The user already
> >understands double-click, and double-click is easy to do (you don't need
> >to move your hands).  It's also well defined and easy to explain.
> >
> >njh
> 
> Hmm, yet another skill users have to learn.  Do you have any idea how 
> hard it was for me to get my mom to even double click in the first 
> place?  And then to stop double clicking on everything, e.g. links?
> 

Entering the fray late, I don't see why we don't follow standard X windows
behaviour, single click letter, double click word, triple click line.

That's just about Macintosh as described above.  And once learned it's the same
everywhere unixy.

Just MHO,

Michael...
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