Re: Editing and formatting characters

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:33:10PM -0800, Brian Stell wrote:

> >    HEBREW TEXT [HYPHEN] [RLM] 1234
> >                        ^     ^
> >                        A     B
> >
> > There should not be cursor positions at A and B because that would
> > result in having to hit the arrow key twice to at that position, which
> > would be very non-inituitive.
> 
> Okay, so we are talking about editing where the control characters
> are invisible.

Yes.
 
> We are also talking about a non novice: ie: someone who understands
> what a [RLM] character means and how to insert it.

No.
The mode wit invisible control chars is primarly for users unaware of all
those details; the goal is to allow handling of that in a transparent way,
so he has never to know about it (some RLM, LRM, etc can be inserted
automatically by a smart input layer, without the user knowing what is
going).

> For this case we may in fact want to have two logical cursor
> positions with one physical position.
> 
> Being able to hit the arrow key twice at that position would give
> this expert user the option of being before or after the invisible
> character.

For that there is the "visible" mode.
In "invisible" mode your idea can only lead to problems, as visually there
is no information on where the cursor would be...

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Pablo Saratxaga

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