ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (10/08/90)
In <10592@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:' >I told him, "Just point anywhere in the word and do a double-click: hit >the button twice in rapid succession." A look of pure technological I like the easy way to select words in the Apple user interface. But there is one thing I don't understand: why do we have to select commands (either by menus or by a key-combination) to *move* text? Why can't whe just grab the selected text and drag it to the place we want to put it? In some programs you could move paragraphs by dragging, but you can't find anything about it in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG). In AHIG we could find the famous shift-click and the (almost) newer- imlemented Apple-click (discontinius selection). But what's so wrong with a <mysterious key>-click for grabbing/dragging text around? /Olle
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (10/08/90)
In article <1990Oct7.235950.7800@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes: >Why can't whe just grab the selected text and drag it to the place we want to >put it? OpenLook/XView does this. It supports the "drag-and-drop" metaphor in more ways than moving text around. Files can be dragged to a printer, tape or editor as well as a trash can or folder. If you run X windows on your Mac, I suggest you experiment with it and see how you like it. I personally like secondary selection better - you hold down the paste key, and click on some text in the same or another window. When you release the Paste key, the text is inserted in your current insertion point. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett