On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:58:20PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> <nicefrac>
> <cell logicalrow="0" logicalcol="0">1</cell>
> <cell logicalrow="1" logicalcol="0">2</cell>
> </nicefrac>

That's basically waht idxUp/Down does.


> >> like that. IIRC the brutefind methods were introduced as a fallback hack
> >> and never intended to be really used, because the normal find methods
> >> should always work.
> > 
> > So, anyone remember is there was any plan to replace that.
> 
> IIRC there was no plan. Andre simply stated that this solution is not good.

Because I tried and there was real negative feedback.

In fact, I pretty much started out the same direction as Abdel does
today. Ripping out stuff and watch what fails as a means to discover the
inner working of things is surely not his invention....

> > The problem here is that sometimes we need something that is not on
> > screen but that we should have calculated anyway. This happens for
> > example when you have a formula that is only half displayed at the
> > bottom of the screen. I am not sure how this is handled by the
> > CoordCache but it seems that only what is on screen is in the CoordCache
> > (I might be wrong here).
> 
> I don't know either, but in that case it should be possible to first scroll
> a bit and then go down and find the inset. If I press 'down' at the bottom
> of the screen it is obvious that scrolling is needed, so it could be done
> first and then it could be found out where exactly the cursor goes.

I think it should never, evre happen, even today.

> >> I don't know the
> >> implementation too well,
> > 
> > I guess nobody really knows... except Andre' :-(
> 
> And Alfredo.

Indeed. After all, he used to fix the mess I left behind...

Andre'

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