Re: Editing and formatting characters

[bstell netscape com (Brian Stell)]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> 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).

How would the input layer determine the user wanted the [RLM] next to
the hyphen here?

  1234-TXET WERBEH

vs

  -1234TXET WERBEH