On Apr 8, 11:22 am, "Edward K. Ream" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another possibility is to make cursor movement commands smarter. They > would tell editCommands.editWidget to return the minibuffer if focus > is already there. This was surprisingly easy. There is now a set of commands that can be applied to the minibuffer: basic cursor-movement commands, delete characters, select-all and kill-line. There is special case code of various kinds (not too odious, imo) that causes the command to operate directly on the minibuffer if focus is already there. Never underestimate the power of special hacks to make the interface look uniform :-) I'll push the code to the trunk after I use it for several hours. All unit tests pass. Edward P.S. A recent video, I think it was a TED Talk, by the great Alan Kay got me thinking about ways to reduce the hacks. The idea is to make all text widgets more object oriented by having the *widget* support the editing commands. No more special case dispatching code. This would be a big big refactoring: I don't *think* it will be worthwhile (or needed) now. We shall see... EKR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
