On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:03:49AM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> 
> >> For text, the other is 1.3.x behaviour. If you insist on yours, I think
> >> we should fix things a bit, because we don't allow selections ending at
> >> different levels, so the start of the selection has to be adjusted.
> > 
> > I don't insist on 'mine' right now. Just making it works as 1.3.x is
> > good enough. But I want to get there in the long run...
> 
> Ok.
>  
> >> [I don't think it's so important for text anyway]
> > 
> > I think it will get more important as soon as we get mor sub-paragraph
> > insets (character styles, fonts, ...)
> 
> This is true.
> I was a bit reluctant because I was thinking some awful table behaviour I've
> suffered: if the mouse goes out, the selection jumps to a higher level,

That's what math does..

> but there's no going back, so you are normally stuck with a
> selection bigger than what you want.  Mathed behaviour is nice (I
> didn't noticed ;-), because it allows going back.

And I think the math selection scheme is even simpler than the one used
outside (just cursor + selection anchor, instead of cursor + selection
beging + selection end), but I fear we'd break too much if we touched
'outer world selection' right now. (Gee, at what time did I fall into
the 'careful' camp?)

[This is not to discourage you, but rather saying that I won't be able
to offer more than moral support. Note that for full IU we'd need a
'selection unification' as well, so at some point of time we need to go
there...]

Andre'

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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one.     (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

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