Re: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107904 In gedit, the option to have line wrapping brings up an interesting usability question. I wanted to try to get the list's comments. The basic question is in such an application, should keyboard navigation follow logical lines or visible lines? That is, say I've got a line that is longer than the visible line length and so it wraps to the next line. Line numbering in gEdit described logical lines, not visible lines, thus line numbers skip over numbering the wrapped portion of my line. But keyboard navigation follows visible lines, thus if I am at the first character of line #45 and line #45 is wrapped, hitting the down arrow takes me one visible line down, but I'm still on the logical line #45. In the bug I brought up an example where the following of visible lines is particularly annoying. Say I'm editing code and I have to change the number of tab indents of a series of lines. I'm used to having a repeated use of "down, left, tab" to insert an additional indent. However with the down key following visible lines and not logical lines, I have to consider whether hitting the down key has taken me to a new logical line or kept me on the same one. Anyways, comments? Thoughts? -jag -- --------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Adam Ginsberg Cellphone: 970.749.8530 Rice University '02 Email: joshg myrealbox com St. Mark's School of Texas '98 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ---------------------------------------------------------
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