Re: [zzdev] Re: gzz Edit Window

[Tuomas Lukka <lukka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> On 20001024T025846-0400, Marlene Mallicoat wrote:
> > Hi, AJ --
> > 
> > >> 1.   Edit Window functions.  The Home, End and Enter (carriage return)
> > keys
> > >> should be made to work again.  Also, the ability to stripe a block of
> > test
> > >> (for cut, copy, paste) needs to be put back in.  Also, right now,
> > instead
> > >> of scrolling the text up, I get Edit Windows where the text I'm
> > inputting
> > >> and the cell number are on top of each other, making it difficult to
> > read.
> > 
> > >This most likely requires a full rewrite of the edit window code (which
> > >is still a kluge!).
> > 
> > We very much need to know:  when will this be done?  It is extremely
> > difficult to work with the gzz 0.1.3 stable version until these edit
> > functions are implemented.
> 
> I just implemented the following in CVS:
> 
>     In text edit mode:
>         Home goes to the start of cell content
> 	End goes to the end of cell content
> 	Ctrl-A goes to the beginning of the current line
> 	Ctrl-E goes to the end of the current line
> 	Enter can be inserted into cells
> 	
> (Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E seem to be broken just now.)
> 
> The bindings are available only on new or -new -dcold'd spaces.
> 
> However, the line breaks show on screen as spaces.  It's as much I could
> get to work for now.
> 
> Home, End and Enter will appear in 0.1.4.  Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E will if
> and only if I can fix them.

Do note that merging changes to unstable will be more complicated with the
big API changes...

	Tuomas