Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is "File->Save Highlighted" menu item for?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:10:18 -0800
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:43:07AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >OK, the current label does not indicate that only the highlighted packet 
> >data is saved ... Perhaps we want Highlighted Packet Data or something 
> >like that.
> >
> I would tend to call it "Selected", not "Highlighted".
> 
> Or is there a reason to use the term "Highlighted" that I just don't see?

What's written is the field you've currently selected in the protocol
tree pane.  If, for example, you happen to select some text in the hex
pane, that doesn't affect what gets written (for one thing, you can
select stuff that's not on byte boundaries, or that crosses between the
hex dump and ASCII dump portion).

I'm not sure which of the two words would better reflect that.