Re: text widget: wrap mode and cursor movement

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Arjen Siegmann" <siegmann@tinbergen.nl> writes:
> 
> Lately I've  created a simple text editor with Glade and some c-code,
> read most of the documentation on GtkText and GtkEditable and have the
> following question:
> If you use wrap mode, the arrow-up and arrow-down keys don't put you in
> the next or previous row of text (same column) , but on the next or
> previous _line_, which is pretty annoying if your typing a longer piece
> of text. First of all, can this be changed already by using a function
> like  gtk_text_set_visual_mode(..)? If so, which is it exactly?. If not, is
> this feature likely to appear in the new text widget?

The new widget works properly. I don't think there's a way to make the
old one do this right.

Havoc