On 12 March 2012 21:23, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Igor
would it be not more clever to integrate keyMapper and add Ctrl-a Ctrl-e because has that since decades now? It is orthogonal. Ctrl-a btw selects all text.. which kind-of windowish behavior, but it is also quite useful.
I would not integrate such change in its current state
Because for me going back one character is important and it is important to jump at the beginning of the line
Stef, you can go back & forth by one character, unless you are at multiple whitespace characters, which is treated as single whitespace. This is not my invention. I borrowing that from typography systems, a white space between words treated as a single whitespace, because usually, a typography system using kerning rules and adjusts spaces width in order to justify text in a line so it will align to column edges. You can take any newspaper and see the effect. Obviously, nobody using multiple spaces in text to align it.. because space width may vary. And hence, no need to put more than one space between words. Tabs having special meaning , however. Usually they used at the beginning of line. And usually again, you don't need to be able to navigate to each particular tab character, you always want to navigate either to start of line, or to start of a text.. and this is 1 key stroke with my patch, with one finger. no need to use ctrl-a /ctrl-e
but that I know how to do it: ctrl-A and at the end Ctrl-e. Cut a line Ctrl-Kâ¦.
So ...
so try format the attached. and you will see a difference
Stef
On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:58 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 12 March 2012 03:50, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
sorry for not explaining the feature properly..
I just wanna ask, what do you think, it we're going to integrate that: Â a) should it be optional or we can use it by default? Â b) if it is optional, what is default setting on/off?
I vote for (a).. Because: ^^^ a) as not-optional :)
What i finding hard is imagining situation, where old behavior will be less time consuming/more appropriate. Can anyone can come up with cons arguments?
While is important to fully control each whitespace character(s) separately, when you editing/typing text (as in languages like Python they even make it part of syntax... (what a stupid idea.. can't resist sorry)), for navigating the text an importance of stepping over every whitespace character seems to be leaning to zero.. (well, at least in my eyes).
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.