From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should invisible imply intangible? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:24:10 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016522866 20473 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2002 07:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nE26-0005K7-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:27:46 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nE7H-0003Bc-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:33:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nE1b-0006L2-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nDzd-000689-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16050; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:24:10 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2028 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2028 On 19 Mar 2002, David Kastrup wrote: > As Stefan (or was it Miles?) has already remarked, the default > display of cursors should preferably be such that an insertion of new > characters will occur at the location where the cursor is visible. Mostly unrelated to the current discussion, but I thought I'd raise that anyway: the principle that insertion should happen at cursor location is not carved in stone. It will possibly not hold with bidirectional editing: when typing bidirectional text, it sometimes makes sense to insert characters not at the cursor (some editors do that). So I think the possibility that insertion happens not at cursor should not be discarded right away: perhaps it makes sense to users in some situations. (I'm not saying that the situations you are discussing are such cases.) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel