On 9/26/07, Michael Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must admit, I am incredulous. Who knew there was a way to delete the > letter to the right?
Me neither! Been using backspace in Dia all my life. > What is this about Ctrl-Delete? I had no expectation until reading this > conversation that Ctrl-Delete was a shortcut for anything. I have been > using Dia for several years now and never knew about that. And how was I > supposed to gain that knowledge? From the Help files? I can't think of a way to indicate this to a user. A tool tip, perhaps? Or maybe an entry for "Common Shortcuts" under "Help"? > bizarre programing changes regularly. Excellent programs get changed for > the worse all the time (usually to shoehorn them into Windows) - maybe it > isWindows fault Dia doesn't work right, I thought. Yeah! Life is a bitch. :) And Windows doubly so! :D > Everyone of these programs maps the delete key the same way. In any of them > that have a special text block that gets edited (Solidworks for example) > when my cursor is between letters Delete acts in the expected manner. If I > have merely activated the text block, but not put the cursor at some > location in the text, the Delete key does delete the block. That's how it > is commonly done in my experience. That's also how it is meant to be in Dia too. > Dia is the ONLY program I use that diverges from this behavior. And Dia is the ONLY program in the list you mentioned that is managed by a small bunch of volunteers who keep asking for help in terms of code all the time. > Meanwhile, thanks for the tip about Ctrl-Delete. I had to go check that out > immediately. Imagine using Dia and not know about that, eh? If you all > are going to be hard-headed about this, then I am glad to know how it is > done. I was tired of backspacing. I am sure lots would agree on this. I do, for one. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
