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by neebz 5193 days ago
regarding #2..

I used Mac for a week and went back to Windows. The jerky scrolling in Windows was driving me crazy. The fact was that before Mac I never realized that (maybe I'm numb to perfection) but it was only using Mac that it occurred how much crap scrolling is in Windows.
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emehrkay 5193 days ago
I currently have a vm of windows 7 open on my mac with the host file open in notepad. Two lines are selected (as I needed to copy them from time to time). If that window loses focus, the selection stays, but if I click the titlebar to that window, giving it focus again, those two lines are unselected.

There are many many quirks like this in Windows that you only notice once you use a different window manager.

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tjoff 5193 days ago
Sigh... this is an issue with your VM and not Windows.
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emehrkay 5193 days ago
You're right. The deselection doesnt happen if I click the titlebar, but it does if I click the content area (that doesnt happen in OS X, I havent checked any Linux window managers).
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tjoff 5193 days ago
Of course it does, when you click the content area you reposition the cursor and thus deselects the text. The alternative would be to not be able to reposition the cursor when you bring focus to the window which presents other "quirks" if you look at it from other angles (and it of course needs to be consistent, if you can't reposition the cursor why would you be able to press a button if the window isn't active? etc.).

OS X is quite unique in this and probably stems from the use of common menus for different windows, which also makes it uniquely inadequate for handling multiple monitors. I just can't take a WM that doesn't handle multiple monitors well seriously.

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emehrkay 5192 days ago
I, and a host of others, work fine with multiple monitors..

I'm sure if people were presented with both options; regain focus and lose selection vs keepi g selection, they'd choose the keep selection. It's as if someone used the computer and said "you know what would be useful?..."

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dristic 5193 days ago
I completely agree with this. I was a dedicated Windows user but I never realized all its shortcomings, scrolling being a big one.
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