On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:33:37AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > [...] > >.. sounds fishy .. in a cell terminal how could a character be between > >characters.. except by being invisible? > > > >:-) > > > [...] > > Windows, even more than "modern" Unixes (those with X11), is GUI-oriented. > On Windows, IIUC, only old Dos hands like me, hackers, and Unix users ever > use the Dos Box. Other people use WYSIWYG interfaces like Word, and their > cursor is not a character, nor does it cover a character; it is a blinking > bar between characters. Gvim imitates that quite well, except that the gvim > cursor must always be thought of as being "on" a character, even in Insert > mode when it displays as a thin vertical bar on the left edge of the > character cell.
Very interesting. Thanks cga
