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

Thanks for the responses.

I see what you mean. If I highlight some code then scroll after the
selection has been made, if the highlighted code goes off the screen,
it's no longer selected.

However, I don't really find this to be acceptable behavior as it seems
counterintuitive to the environment.

Also, all character selections I'm aware of involve the Alt key (Alt-R,
Alt-Z, Alt-U), so it seems inconsistent that Ctl-A would be in that list
of character selections.

Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc

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On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:48 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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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