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- From: grunwald@mumble.cs.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
- Subject: Re: blink-paren function
- In-Reply-To: jwz@lucid.com's message of Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:03:28 PDT
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 17:40:13
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- >>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:03:28 PDT, jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) said:
- ...
- JZ> You think this because you think of the cursor as being ON a character.
- JZ> You have not truly discovered The Way.
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- So, why not make the way a little more obvious and have the cursor be
- an under-caret between letters. I.e. someting like....
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- now is the time for a ll good
- ^
-
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- Or have it be the text style cursor & use another cursor for the
- normal mouse cursor style. I.e.
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- v
- now is the time for a|ll good
- ^
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- afterall, we *are* using bitmaps.
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