Re: Word selection and cursor placement

[Wolfgang Lux]

Matt Rice wrote:

> I don't know anything about right-to-left text flow,
> but it seems to me that moveLeft: and moveRight should
> have the same behaviour on both left->right and
> right->left text because left is a literal direction,
>
> corresponding to the left and right arrow keys,
> i don't think that these should be affected by text
> direction
>
> where moveForward: and moveBackward: are non-literal
> directions, which should be affected
>
> i notice slight differences in the documentation
>
> -moveRight: should be placed at the right end of the
> former selection.
> -moveForward: should be place at the end of the former
> selection.
>
> otoh, i'm not sure if what you describe here is a
> difference of behaviour, or a different implementation
> required to achieve the same behaviour under both
> left->right and right->left, if you could clarify that
> a little

In fact, what I was describing is a difference in the
implementation needed to achieve the behavior you describe
above (and to which I agree completely).

Wolfgang