Re: cursor when there is a selection

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 06/30/2004 17:28:54

There is a couple of reasons why the caret does not disappear when

selecting: unlike MS Word, it's important when the caret is:

- (as you mentioned) there is a concept of current item - item at the

position of caret;

- In MS Word, when you press left arrow key when some text is selected, the

caret will be at the top of selection, even if you selected from left to

right, the same is with the right arrow key; so MS Word treats selection

like a a large caret.

I think simple hiding of caret without making something with the questions

above is useless. May be this mode will be implemented in future, but not

very soon.

PS: trichview hides the caret when it's really not needed - on table

multicell selection