Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:23:25PM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:39:05AM +0200,
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Andre', could you give an example of a case where you'd like the cursor
to stop in between character styles?
Anytime I want to start typing in one but not the other.
BTW, it's not exactly "one and not the other": it's "the outer and not
the inner". But if you have <b><i>hello</i></b> and now you want to add
something to <i> but not to <b>, you're no better off. With charstyles
as char attributes, you'd toggle off whichever one you don't want, and type.
With insets it is clear what is outer and what is inner, and you can
even have bothe <i> in <b> and <b> in <i>. With current fonts it is
more or less random what is in and what is out.
With insets it may be clear, but still not match what I want in a given
situation, because I want to extend the inner and not the outer. So the
fact that it's clear isn't all that helpful...
With current fonts I agree it's not clear.
What I'm suggesting is continue using char-attributes (in an enhanced,
more general form, but the same basic concept) --- but to add visual
cues to make it clear exactly how far the range extends; and/or to make
it clear exactly what attributes the next font I type is going to have.
Here's an idea, for example: in the status bar, clearly display the
"currently active" character attributes / styles. Or even better, this
could be a very unintrusive check-list of the currently active
attributes, allowing me to also uncheck any attributes that I want to
turn off.
The point is, I think that with a little creative thinking, we should be
able to solve the specific problems that we have with font attributes,
without changing the entire metaphor, and without requiring changes in
other, already-complicated, parts of the code (e.g., cursor-movement).
Andre'
Dov
