[g-a-devel]Re: Clarification on GtkTextView keynav.

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Narayana Pattipati wrote:
> 
> 2. At present, if the cursor is at the first character of a paragraph,
> pressing
>    Ctrl+Down brings the cursor to the end of the same paragraph.
> 
>    I feel this is incorrect. What I feel is, cursor should move to the
> begining of next paragraph. 

Hmm... well, the reason I originally specified that Ctrl+Down should
move the cursor to the end of the current paragraph was for consistency
with Ctrl+Right, which moves the cursor to the end of the current word
first, and then to the end of subsequent words.

Personally I think this makes it easier to select text from the
keyboard... but I see that in things like Mozilla, IIRC, Ctrl+Right/Down
does move to the start of the following word/paragraph, as you
suggested.

Anyone else have any views on this?  Is there some selection subtlety
I'm missing that makes one approach better than the other?  Whichever of
the two we choose, I think that the consistency needs to be maintained
between Ctrl+Left/Right and Ctrl+Up/Down, though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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