From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 24's forward-char vs right-char behavior
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:58:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17621309.1810.1335491905331.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbw7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.614.1335343852.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:50:53 UTC+8, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes, it's not easy at all. Especially if you think about such
> complications as moving cursor with the Shift key pressed, which marks
> the region you move across. With the visual cursor motion, the intent
> of the user wrt which buffer positions should be included in the
> region is ambiguous.
Indeed, when I tested now, I observed that when merely moving the cursor, Chrome uses visual cursor motion, but when selecting text it switches to using logical cursor motion. I'm not sure what is more confusing, logical cursor motion when moving, or changing behaviour when selecting text, but definitely you need to use logical motion when selecting text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-27 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 22:19 emacs 24's forward-char vs right-char behavior Xah Lee
2012-04-24 23:07 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-25 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.610.1335334014.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-25 7:43 ` Xah Lee
2012-04-25 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 8:32 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-25 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.614.1335343852.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-25 12:48 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-26 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.81.1335439086.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-26 18:19 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-26 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-27 1:58 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.613.1335342081.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-26 14:24 ` Xah Lee
2012-04-26 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 8:16 ` Joost Kremers
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