LabVIEW
String Ctrl-C/Ctrl-X Bug
@X. wrote:
What about the Ctrl-A bug? That is a REALLY annoying bug for users at run time (have you ever tried to scroll through a multi-page string to select it all? Or tried repeatedly to Ctrl-A within a string and not notice all the smal "a" dropped in the middle of the string?
I just lumped it in with all those other anomalies we were chatting about in this thread. Yeah, the ctrl-a bug frustrates me a lot.
@jcarmody wrote:
@X. wrote:
OK, but you still loose the position you were at in the string when you decided: "let me make a copy of that thing before I irremediably mess it up".<any character>, Ctrl-z, Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+Shift+End, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+Shift+z, Ctrl+z
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Yes, but - as mentioned earlier - it isn't even the developer who it would irk the most. In the end, it is the user who decides what is appropriate and what is not. The user will be annoyed when the software doesn't function as expected. For instance, if the user always used ctrl+a to select everything and it just inserted an "a" into the text, he would be annoyed. If the user had highlighted all the text and pressed ctrl+c only to find it replaced all the hihglighted text with a "c", he would probably be steaming.
@jcarmody wrote:
Ctrl+c works as expected.
Yeah, I just noticed that. Actually, it must have been fixed recently, because, according to this thred, a CAR was filed against ctrl+c and ctrl+x. Please understand I am not trying to be combative. I truly understand this has been very consistent with LabVIEW itself and I don't consider them "bugs."
@billko wrote:
I truly understand this has been very consistent with LabVIEW itself and I don't consider them "bugs."
"Consistent within LabVIEW itself" isn't a good reason to keep something. If it's inconsistent with Everything Else(TM) out there, it creates problems for users. One of the biggest examples is LabVIEW's Alt+Tab behaviour: that has been VERY consistent within LabVIEW itself since the dawn of time, but it drives users nuts!
I think it'd be great for LabVIEW to have Ctrl-A/Ctrl+C/Ctrl-X behave like Everything Else(TM), in line with the Principle of least astonishment. I can agree that the word "bug" might be unsuitable here, but it's still an "undesirable characteristic" and a worthy candidate for change.
