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Re: Bug? Moving caret with caps-lock on selects text

From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:03:37 +0200
To: Joe Gittings <joe.gittings@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: www-amaya <www-amaya@w3.org>, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
Message-Id: <20010615090337.C6408C@maiana.inrialpes.fr> 
> I'd like to report what I think may be a bug. Otherwise, it's rather
> unusual UI design.
> 
> If I move the caret (insertion point cursor) around the document using
> the arrow keys and with caps-lock on, Amaya behaves as if I am holding
> down the shift key.   I.e. it selects a block of text.
> 
> Is this the intended behaviour? I have never seen an editor that behaves
> that way before.
> 
> I am using Amaya  4.3.2  on Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe

Okay we changed that behavior in the next release.

-- 
     Irene.
Received on Friday, 15 June 2001 05:03:56 GMT

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