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  3. February 2008

Re: Lpex Editor - Ctl-A and Delete & Ctl-V

Adrian wrote:
Ctrl+A does a CHARACTER (rather than a STREAM) selection because LPEX keeps the cursor inside the visible view at all times (when you scroll, the cursor moves to stay on a line inside the screen). If Ctrl+A were to do a stream selection, then 1.- the cursor would have to be set at the end of the document, 2.- any scroll the user would do at that point (e.g., mouse clicking or dragging on the scroll bar) will cause the cursor to move and consequently clear the selection...

You can always delete the entire selection with Alt+D or pop-up menu > Selected > Delete selection.

Joe's suggestion - Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+Shift+End - is another good alternative.


Thanks for this explanation, Adrian. I never considered the difference between character and stream selection; now I understand this side effect. What determines which selections are character vs. stream? I'm guessing that the Alt-R is a character selection, for example.

Joe

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