On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:59:13 +0100 Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2012-07-21, Richard Wordingham <richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > > Are there any widely available ways of enabling the deleting of the > > first character in a default grapheme cluster? > What do you mean by widely available? An example would be a technique that worked for many application on a platform, or for several significant applications across most platforms. An example of the former would be an effective per user tailoring of grapheme clusters. A candidate for the latter is Libreoffice's rule that alt+cursor key moves within grapheme clusters rather than moving the point to the start of the next grapheme cluster. (Unfortunately this doesn't even work inside tables, so it doesn't look much of a candidate.) This can be used in the sequence alt/right-arrow rubout. Richard.