[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#564177: Bug#564177: mcedit: cursor behaves crazy after end of line

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

>> when using the internal editor mcedit I realised that the cursor can be
>> moved further than end of line which gives the impression of an infinite
>> number of spaces behind the last character which is definitely an
>> unexpected behaviour for an editor.
>
> That's not a bug. Disable the "Cursor beyond EOL" editor option if you
> don't like this behavior.

Uhm, behaving different than any other editor I know is IMHO at least a
badly choosen default behaviour (= wishlist bug).  I would strongly vote
to keep the original behaviour and leave this new (??) behaviour as a
configuration option.  In addition it is not really obvious to find this
option.

>> Especially it is not possible to tell whether there are real spaces or
>> not and the user starts "removing" spaces at end of line if he asumes
>> there are some.
>
> You can turn on "Visible spaces and tabs" so that you can actually see
> then.

I know this option but I do not really like it because it reduces the
ability to cut-n-past sections of the text.

Kind regards

         Andreas.