Package: cream
Version: 0.32-2
Severity: normal
I'm no 'vim' expert; I tried 'cream' mainly for its
"Column Select" feature, which has some surprises.
Enter some text in 'cream':
hello world
e pluribus unum
'Alt-shift' select from the first "o" to "s", so the selected text
would be:
o worl
uribus
'Edit>Copy', a box pops up:
[ Information X ]
Menu items are unavailable during column mode
[OK]
Click OK. The selected text area was changed from six columns
to only one, like so:
o
u
I look at 'Help>About' just to see what it says. It
displays no box, but the original text changes to:
hell:oall Cream_splash()world
e pl:uall Cream_splash()ibus unum
Conclusion: 'cream' would be more intuitive for novice users if...
1) ...appropriate menu items were available during "column mode".
2) ..."Information" windows never altered text selection areas.
3) ...users were unable to click unavailable items.
(Such items should preferably be grayed out.)
4) ...'Help>About' did not insert text.
(Maybe this should be four bug reports, not one?)
A note for other novices: "column select" does work without menus
if you select text, hit 'Ctrl-c' to copy, then 'Ctrl-v' to paste.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages cream depends on:
ii vim 1:6.3-071+1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
ii vim-full [gvim] 1:6.3-071+1 Vi IMproved - full fledged version
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