| Re: IDL Workbench Nits [message #58055 is a reply to message #58002] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Bob Crawford wrote:
> On Jan 10, 4:45 pm, Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDe...@noaa.gov> wrote:
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>> All the c.l.i-p ng traffic about the Workbench would seem to indicate that letting the
>> application make the choices behind-the-scenes is just bad mojo of the 10ft pole variety.
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> I would agree with that generally - but in this case it's the user who
> may be inadvertantly telling the Workbench the wrong intention - cr/nl
> characters being largely invisible and easily copied by accident (at
> least on Windows)
Ah, o.k. I live in the *nix world and 99.999% of the time it's very obvious if the cr/nl
is included in a copy/paste; if the highlighted portion extends all the way to the right
edge of the window or text box, then the cr/nl is included. If it just extends to the end
of the selected text, then no cr/nl. Quite simple really.
But then, when I sit in front of a Windows machine, I'm (a) lost, and (b) dumbfounded how
difficult these sorts of little things are (e.g. for default Windows behaviour at least,
why on earth do I have to type ctrl-C to copy text when I just selected it? Isn't the act
of selecting text enough to tell the system "Hey! Copy this into the buffer!" :o)
Maybe that is a fundamental issue with stuff like eclipse - to be a truly cross-platform
GUI must it compromise on typical usage/interaction patterns and habits that people have
with their system of choice?
cheers,
paulv
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