Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Omer Zak wrote:

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:32 +0200
From: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

From the discussion below, I understand that Shachar and me use the same
definition of "visual selection".  You drag the mouse from column X to
column Y in the same row of the display, and get whatever text which
happens to be displayed between those columns (the text could have been
from different spans of the corresponding original text - "logical
text").

We agree on the meaning of visual selection.


Jonathan, can you clarify if you mean the same thing, or whether you
really meant "temporarily turn off BiDi ordering for a selected text
segment and display it"?

No, we mean temporaroly turn off bidi re-ordering for a text, do a logical 
selection (which is now the same as visual selection) of some subset and 
then revert the display of the whole text back to bidi ordering. Selected 
text wold be always be displayed in the same ordering as the unselected 
text.

 - yba



                                  --- Omer


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:09 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Right, that's what the qualifier "in effect" means.

Visual selection, to me, means "selecting text from a continuous block
of visually ordered text". If the text is not visually ordered then the
selection cannot be considered "visual". I conceded that definitions may
vary.

I agree with Omer that visual selection does not seem all that useful to
me. I am at a loss to think of what use to the end user a selection
containing the end of the Hebrew part of a sentence followed by the end
of the English part of the sentence is going to be. Same goes for the
beginnings of the sentences combined.



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