John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This isn't about overlapping extents as I see it, it's about a natural
> feel for the UI. In particular, if I click-drag at point A in this
> diagram:
>
>       foo bar C foo bar A foo bar foo bar B
>
> and drag towards B, it will prove extremely annoying that my selection
> changes to cover C too. "That's not what I asked for!"

It happens for example in tabular inset when the selection changes to
encompass several cells.

> It's OK with today's insets because they're clearly separate chunks of
> text.

What would you advocate? Stay with ranges or try to make the insets
feel reasonable?

JMarc

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