Shuckins

[ritaxis]

What is the keyboard shortcut that highlights your entire LJ post and deletes it without confirmation? I need to know, because I hit it from time to time and I don't know how.

Anyway, this was an elegant post about Edwards dropping out of the presidential race, and how I think Californians should still vote for him next Tuesday because he's clearly planning to use his up-to-now 20% of the vote as leverage to fight for a decent party platform at the convention. I am sure of this because he has not endorsed Clinton or Obama and he has promised that both Clinton and Obama have promised him that ending poverty will be a main thrust of their campaign and presidency. I don't believe that either of them gave him any such credible assurance, and I do believe that he's all for making it uncomfortable for them until they do.

I think he should have waited until next Wednesday to drop out, really I do. California is not a winner-take-all primary at least for the Democrats, and we could have given him a pile more delegates to take to the convention and pressure Clinton and Obama with.

Also, the young doctor has a job teaching English as of Monday and he also is thinking of moving to a cheaper place. He thinks his job will almost pay his expenses. But he won't take a lot of pictures when he walks around town because he doesn't want to look like a tourist.

Considering the "natives only" signs the neo-nazi skinheads were carrying around, maybe this is not such an unreasonable position to take.

Comments

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I don't know about highlight, but if you are talking about this happening while you are composing a post/reply, I think one of the Home/Delete keys or some such might function as a "Back" button for the browser, and even if you try to go forward, your text is gone.

I forget if LJ's autosave feature has ever helped me in that situation.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Backspace functions as Back when you are not focused on a textbox.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the LJ, but I was planning to vote for Edwards on the 12th. Maybe I still will.

I'm glad Frank has a job! The police don't follow the neo-nazis?

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Re the vanishing posts. It sounds like you're hitting Ctrl A (shortcut to highlight everything) instead of Shift A. Once all the text is highlighted, pressing any other key will replace the highlighted text with whatever you hit, possibly the space bar.

Ctrl Z (undo) or Edit and then Undo should get the text back.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That sounds really realistic. Especially thanks for the ctrl-z advice!