From: Masatsugu Nagata (nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Date: 8 Mar 01, 10:08 EST
From: Masatsugu Nagata <nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Subject: Twiddle? Joachim Kock wrote: > > (i) twiddling the characters which straddle the cursor > > (ii) not ignoring spaces > > (iii) return with the cursor where it was to begin with > > I fully agree with (ii) and (iii) > > Concerning (i), I find the new behaviour much better (twiddling the two > preceding chars): typically (type-ically) you discover your erorr just > after committing it and then you just twiddle - no need to move the > cursor backwards first and forwards again after twiddling (as in the > old twiddle behaviour)... > I find the old behaviour better for me. I am a mildly-fast typist, and I almost _never_ find my typing error immediately after I made it. Almost always, I find myself having typed "teh" or "twiddel" at least four or five keystrokes after I've done it. So, in my real-life typing, I almost always have to "go back" and move the cursor to my error anyway. And, in that situation (which is the most normal case in my usage), having to place the cursor _after_ the two characters feels unnatural to me. I think I feel more peace-in-mind when I click in the middle of the two characters in question. What do other people think? (I've just tried 'M-x transpose-chars' in NEmacs on our UNIX host, and it (i) twiddled the chars which straddle the cursor, (ii) not ignoring spaces, but (iii') returned with the cursor after the two characters.) Mark -- Mark Nagata mailto:nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp P.S. Jon, I guess I owe you my apology, too, for using words like "evil" in inappropriate places. I'll watch my mouth. By the way, you wrote "atcl-d". Is that an "official" acronym for "alphatcl-developers" mailing list name? _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers