>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

John> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> Currently the same kind of behaviour is faked in the outside world
>> for the case of changing rtl parts and it is my understanding that
>> the current behaviour of the cursor on the boundary of font changes
>> is broken [Type 'a<C-e>b<Left>'. Try to insert a non-italic char
>> there] and the only fix I am aware of is to have two cursor
>> positions there (on before, one after the change) - in other words
>> inset-like behaviour (be it implemented by insets or otherwise is
>> not the question here).

John> place the cursor, click off italic button, type. This is exactly
John> why we should not have this broken "flip the word" behaviour I
John> argued against some time ago. We already have a quick way to
John> apply word-scope changes (namely double click)

I am not against suppressing 'flip the word', but having to reach the mouse
to double-click a word is planly stupid.

JMarc

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