Another program like KeyNote

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 21, 2008 at 08:43 PM

I have not tried Rightnote, but I am very familiar with The Journal and MyInfo—two applications I admire. The problem with TRichedit is that it does not have standard selection modes in its editor. For instance, you can’t triple click in a paragraph to select the entire paragraph, and you can’t double click a word and, with the left mouse button continued to be held down, sweep up addition whole words. In other words, its extended text selection functions are not Word standard, or (in my opinion) convenient. To me this is a major drawback and the prime reason I stopped using The Journal, which used to be my favorite writing environment before the developer switched to TRichedit (which he did because it allowed many other functions, such as tables and links). Really, there is no good excuse for creating a text editor that does not follow the standard set by MS Word… especially since that standard is so convenient.

BTW, you can select a whole paragraph in The Journal by triple clicking—the developer added that function after I suggested it during a beta period. Unfortunately, as he implemented it, the paragraph selection occurs after letting up the mouse button on the third click, instead of on the initial depression of the third click, which makes it impossible to select multiple paragraphs this way.

It surprises me that more people do not find this nonstandard text selection as inconvenient—and consequently a deal-breaker—as I do. Just proves we all have different needs.

Happy holidays!

Steve Z.