On 2012-11-12, QSJN 4 UKR <[email protected]> wrote: > A caret is a flashing line, block, or other picture in the client area > of a window, it indicates the place (between two characters) at which > text will be inserted (or the edge of the text to be selected or > deleted). What does it mean? Between? There is no "between" in the > bidirectional text, the previous and the next character are not > necessary nearby! There is no distinct place for the insertion because > the place depends of direction of the inserted characters.
What exactly a caret/cursor means is dependent on the system. On my editor, the cursor is not logically *between* characters, it's logically *on* a character, so there is no ambiguity. > Other example, without bidi. You see: > pré|sent > Where is your caret? After é? after ́ ? between e and ́ ? Press Again, it depends. A user-oriented editor will treat é as a single unit anyway, for text manipulations. In my programmer-oriented editor, when the cursor is on e or ́, the two codepoints are displayed separately instead of combined, so again there is no ambiguity. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
