On Tue, Oct 07, 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection": > I agree with Omer that visual selection does not seem all that useful to > me. I am at a loss to think of what use to the end user a selection > containing the end of the Hebrew part of a sentence followed by the end > of the English part of the sentence is going to be. Same goes for the > beginnings of the sentences combined.
When you put it this way, it might not sound very useful, but what if we're talking about part of an hebrew sentence and a piece of punctuation or whitespace that actually belongs to the English part, but you don't know that? When this happens, it's a real annoyance to delete such punctuation because it's hard to "select" it. Just yesterday I was wrestling with this issue although I admit - it's not terribly common. In the common cases (removing just a Hebrew word, etc.) there's simply no difference between visual and logical selection. P.S. "visual selection" is where the highlight displayed on-screen is contiguous, but the characters selected in memory are not, while "logical selection" is where the characters selected in memory are contiguous, while the highlight on screen is not. This is my definitions, and also Doug Felt's in the presentation I pointed to: http://www.m17n.org/conference/m17n2000_all_but_registration/proceedings/felt/sld024.htm -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Oct 7 2008, 9 Tishri 5769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I don't live on the edge, but sometimes I http://nadav.harel.org.il |go there to visit. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
