At 09:34 p -0700 08/19/2007, Bruce Barrett didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Ah yes, now I get it!
Yes, I'd like things to work as YOU describe, where text + down (or up)
arrow results in the position equal to where you started entering text,
instead of ending it.
I find this most often when trying to go from:
abcd
defg
ghij
to
ab--cd
de--fg
gh--ij
"Costs me" 2 "extra" back-arrow keystrokes per line the way things
happen now. (Though this may be a more "standard" Mac behavior,
not sure.)
IIRC, the HIG doesn't specify whether the current insertion point
would refer to the beginning or end of typing some text. It's
obviously easier programming based on the last position, but if the
programmer(s) can come up with a heuristic for determining the
"start" location (such as maintaining state for adjacent lines, or
something like how graphics programs determine object duplication
spacing) then I believe programmers are free to do that.
The thing is, the current insertion point *is* the last position, but
really that only applies to the current line, so... well, I leave it
up to the programmers. :-)
Actually, I thought there already was some such behavior in BBEdit
but I can never figure out how to "engage" it. If it is there, maybe
it only needs a heuristic tweak?
Auto-indent implies some similar mechanism....
-boo
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