Friday, July 25, 2008, 10:40:11 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Daniel Dekany wrote: >> Trying XXE 4.0 I see this two quite basic bugs are still not fixed. I >> say "basic" because these things work in all text editors correctly >> (even in Swing ones), so maybe it's worth reporting them again: >> >> - The display port (by that I mean the rectangle that you see from the >> document at once) doesn't follow the cursor when selecting long >> sections. For example, press Shift + Down for a long time. The >> display port will scroll after the cursor for a while, but after the >> selection height passes the display port height, the display ports >> stop scrolling, so cursor runs out of it at the bottom, so you don't >> see where the end of the still growing selection is. Quite annoying >> if you want to make a long selection. >> >> - Page Down and Ctrl + End does nothing near the end of the file. They >> should move the cursor to the end of the file. (I didn't experienced >> the same buggy behavior in other Swing applications, so I don't know >> why Hussein Safe said earlier that it's decided by Swing. Some >> misunderstanding?) > > In XXE 4, we have tried to fix what we considered to be severe problems > (and we had hard times doing this). The bugs you report are actual bugs, > no question on this. However we don't consider fixing them to be urgent. > That's why fixing these two bugs currently has a rather low priority.
Well, just would like to note that the first one is in fact often highly annoying. And the other one shouldn't be more than 5-10 minutes to fix, I guess. >> >> BTW, when can we expect that XXE will support the editing of the same >> document in multiple windows (that is, in multiple tabs in the case of >> XXE)? You know, that same thing that Word and most serious document >> editor can do... I think it's usually "Open in new window". >> > > I'm sorry but we consider this functionality to be marginally useful > and therefore implementing it is currently not planned. (I would think it's the result of some kind design weakness that it can't be implement easily. Because, then it seems that in general you can't have multiple independent views of the same document?) > This RFE has already been recorded in our Users Wish List > (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/wish_list.html -- a think tank rather > than a TODO list) under different terms: BTW, another missing features that I often used to run into is copy-pasting *from* XXE as text. If there is any element in it, it will be that XML thing instead of plain text. This basically means that you can't copy-paste from XXE into Word or any other application. (Oh, and the missing ToC feature... the current CSS-based solution is kind of lame.) > --- > It should be possible to open two or more views of the same document, > using the same style sheet but having non-synchronized carets (similar > to "Ctrl-x 2" in GNU Emacs). For example, one view could be used to read > the beginning of the document and the other view could be used to edit > the end of the document. > --- > > Your terms are simpler and clearer. -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
