From: david craig (dac@mrs.umn.edu)
Date: 7 Mar 01, 19:19 EST
From: david craig <dac@mrs.umn.edu>
Subject: Twiddle?
I've been using Mr. Noyb's twiddle code, which reverted to previous
behaviour by
(i) twiddling the characters which straddle the cursor, and
(ii) not ignoring spaces
>From my experience over the past few days, it's clear that I've become
accustomed to Alpha's new behaviour as far as (i) is concerned. I still
think I probably prefer the old behaviour, but I do not feel strongly
about this. (ii) however, was GREATLY missed, and I am delighted to
have it back. (If I want to ignore spaces, I can do so by my cursor
placement. I have never encountered a situation where the current
default behaviour seemed to me to be desirable -- I'd be curious if
anyone has counterexamples.)
However, there is one aspect of the new code that might be changed. When
one "twiddles" two characters, the operation ("proc" is the correct Tcl
jargon, I guess, eh?) finishes with twiddled pair selected. It seems to
me -- based on the experience of the past few days, anyway -- that it
would be preferable for twiddle to return with the cursor where it was
to begin with: in between the twiddled characters, nothing selected.
Not least, this would enable successive twiddles to undo one another.
David Craig
<http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~dac/>
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