From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T02:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Editing Text (#145)

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:
>>
> 
> James, thanks for putting all these challenges together, and thanks to 
> the contributors too.
> 
> Just a terminology thing - the proper term is "caret", not a "text 
> cursor".
> 
> Todd

When the Macintosh first came out, the little blinking vertical bar in 
text editors was called the insertion point or caret, but, because of 
its shape, it was also called the "stick".

It doesn't matter whether you see it as a caret or a stick, as long as 
it provides sufficient motivation for the Quiz.   ;) ;) ;)

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