I don't know about the f8 key in particular when it came to editing in
DOS. However, you are right in that, with DOS, you would usually press a
certain key at the beginning of a block of text that you wanted to
select. Once that mark was set, you could leisurely arrow around until
you were certain that you were at the end of the block of text and you
would then press another key to indicate that this was the end of the
block of text. This was what I remembered in DOS, although I was
probably one of the few blind people who never got the hang of
WordPerfect. This was also how it was done in the Braille 'n Speak. When
Windows came along, the method of using the shift key along with
navigation keys was intuitive and at least it was consistent across
programs but, in the beginning, it was a real adjustment for me. Now, I
select text without thinking about it but I actually like the way
Window-Eyes allows you to do it in browse mode. I admit that that I
sometimes forget that this is how it must be done when I'm using
Window-Eyes on the Web and I occasionally reach for the shift key along
with an arrow key impulsively and so I wish we did have this method as
an option. However, as I said in a previous message I wish we could
optionally use the f8 key to select text in any program where a text
edit field is present, such as Wordpad, Jarte, etc.
David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology Specialist
Feel free to visit my Web site
www.davidgoldfield.info
On 7/12/2015 4:15 PM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote:
I think the f8 goes back to the dos days, if I remember my dos
correctly. Pam.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Sarames via Talk
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Josh Rivera ; Window-Eyes Discussion List ; 'Rob'
Subject: Re: Cut and paste question.
Maybe I am missing something. If you press control-shift-down arrow,
don't you have to hold down the down arrow anyway? How is that
different from f-8? The only thing I don't like about f-8 is precisely
figuring out the parameters of what I want to copy.
On 7/12/2015 2:02 PM, Josh Rivera via Talk wrote:
For the record,
I can't figure out, for the life of me, why GW-Micro thought that the
old
method of cut and paste needed fixing. This F-8 thing is for the
birds! I do
quite a bit of selecting large portions of text, from either emails
or web
pages, and I'm constantly having to go through a large document line by
line, just to delete blank lines that appear in the document. This is a
pain, and never happened with the old method, control-shift-down
arrow. This
is simply ridiculous!
-----Original Message-----
From: Talk
[mailto:talk-bounces+josh.riveranr=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Rob via Talk
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 9:12 PM
To: Reeva Webb; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Cut and paste question.
You use the f8 method whenever you are in browse mode.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reeva Webb via Talk" <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
To: "Window-Eyes Discussion List" <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 7:41 PM
Subject: Cut and paste question.
Hi, i had a question about cut and paste. I was wondering if i
wanted to
cut and paste something from a email in outlook would i use the f8 copy
paste method or the standard windows one? If it makes a difference i'm
using outlook 2013.
Reeva
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