On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:50:42PM +0100, Michael Gerz wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > >If inserting newlines directly _were_ allowed, they would not be rolled > >back together with the tracked changes to the surrounding characters. In > >that sense change tracking would be inconsistent. > > > >Cutting and pasting selections subvert this scheme. > > > > > In other words: If inserting newlines were allowed, they would not be > tracked. Not nice but better than disallowing newlines _at all_ in > change track mode. > > Do you know whether the range specifications would be disturbed by new > lines/pars? I think this is the ultimate question, in particular if > users are "creative". If the answer is no, we should allow new lines > directly.
I think the answer is yes, and even that it would be straightforward to add registering code for newlines (pos = par.size()) to breakParagraph and backspace. (Perhaps some changes to cut & paste needed too?) But that's for 1.4.1. - Martin
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