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Re: Try this on your shiny new v4 Front end (Mac)

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• Subject: [mg18572] Re: Try this on your shiny new v4 Front end (Mac)
• From: colin at tri.org.au (Colin Rose)
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:01:18 -0400
• Organization: Theoretical Research Institute
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   >> Open a shiny new v4 Mac notebook, create a text cell, and type:
   >>        Hello [Cut] [Undo]
   >> where [Cut] is CommandX, and [Undo] is CommandZ.


Bill Christens-Barry wrote:

> I tried this. Nothing unusual seemed to happen, so maybe I didn't do what
> you intended. 

> What do you expect to happpen?


On my Mac (Blue G3) and on a previous Mac, Mathematica crashes.
On other Macs, it works fine, so it does not appear to be a
global problem. On my Mac, it is perfectly reproducible.


> Was I supposed to select the text "Hello" before cutting and
> undoing?

No !  It's a CUT with nothing selected.

Cheers

Colin

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