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In article <13124@paris.ics.uci.edu> Alastair Milne <milne@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>     paste.  (Discontinuous selections may be possible in ResEdit, but I don't
>     immediately remember.  Anyway, it's scarcely a hardship if they're not.)

Use clover click to make discontinuous selections.  This is actually the
way that the User and/or Human Interface guidelines have always said 
discontinuous selections should be made!

>     **BIG WARNING!!**
>     If you select Quit before saving your changes, *DON'T* expect ResEdit 
>     politely to ask you if you want them saved first: *it won't*!  It will
>     just discard your changes, as I have found out to my cost.  Explicitly 
>     close the file(s)' windows -- that will get you your save dialogue.

This has not been my experience at all.  What version are you using?
When I quit with changed files, it asks if I want to save changes,
although the fact that it doesn't have a Cancel button is not very polite.

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