From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T23:26:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Editing Text (#145)

On 10/26/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Todd Burch wrote:
>
> > James Gray wrote:
> >> All of the basic operations occur around a text cursor. The minimal
> >> operations on/at the cursor should be:
>
> > Just a terminology thing - the proper term is "caret", not a "text
> > cursor".
>
> While I probably would have called it a caret as well, the term
> doesn't seem completely out of line:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_%28computers%29

Actually, I'd say that caret is a UI/View related term (its the name
of the ^ character, traditionally used in blue-pencil editing to mark
a place to insert test.

Cursor is kind of both a view and a model term, and I think we're
talking about a model in this quiz.

That said, in general, when I've looked at similar code, the analogous
concept usually used is a selection, which represents a contiguous run
of zero or more characters within the buffer.  The quiz seems to be
using a degenerate version of this where the length is constrained to
be zero.


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