Re: Patch for Delete key behavior (for dia-0.96.1)

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> 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.
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