On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0200, Maarten Billemont wrote: > For those to whom a cursor between elements seems confusing: think of your > prompt's cursor and imagine an element is a single character.
No wonder this makes no sense to me. Have you actually looked at the cursor in a terminal? I use rxvt, but xterm is the same: the cursor is a black[1] rectangle that *overlies* one of the characters, not a skinny little wedge/line that sits *between* characters. The only time I've ever seen a cursor that is *between* characters is in GUI stuff, like a textarea in Firefox. But for people like me, that's the oddball case, not the norm. I certainly wouldn't expect a programming language to work like this. [1] Or white, if you are one of those people who use a dark background. Or possibly amber or green, if you're *really* old school.
