On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:44:30PM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:

> I'm not convinced about using a row as a reference position. Keeping a row
> number is wrong (it can change with rebreaking in previous rows). 
> Keeping instead a row pointer (as I do now) is broken, because the row can
> disappear.

Ah, you are probably correct.

> I think some other 'entity' should be used as reference position. Or maybe
> there's some smart way of using a row.

Hopefully one day we will have a simple cursor class that is an iterator
on a document, and another class that has one of those and a pixel
offset (for passing mouse clicks around or something). But  that's some
way off I suppose.

john

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