Hi. Recently had a look at cursors API and implementation in Textblock and was amazed by it baroqueness: there are prepend/append functions, lots of uncertainity of whether to include interval ends into the range or not etc.
Just for the reference for e-devel@: cursors in Textblock point _to_ characters in string, so you have to have e.g. function cursor_text_append to insert text after the character being pointed to, and cursor_text_prepend to insert text before the character being pointed to. I propose to change this part of API to make it easier to reason about stuff and simplify implementation, as follows: Cursors become zero-width entities that point _between_ characters in string. So cursor(offset=4) in text "abcdefgh" points between characters "d" and "e". This will allow to simplify text management (cursor_text_append()/cursor_text_prepend() becomes cursor_text_insert()), delete ambiguity (deletion of interval cursor(offset=2)..cursor(offset=4) will unambigously delete "cd" substring in previous example) and somehow simplify implementation of Textblock. Affected users of Textblock are edje_entry and ewl_text and at first glance it is not hard to adjust them. -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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