> One question though, the block caret mode (CARETSTYLE_BLOCK) seems to behave
> a bit funny. When selecting text in this mode, one would expect to click on
> top of a charactar to start selection from that point and not between two
> chars as in line caret mode. Unless I'm overseeing something, it's very easy
> to select the charactar next to the intended one by mistake. Any ideas on
> this?

<nyamaton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicholai Benalal:
> > One question though, the block caret mode (CARETSTYLE_BLOCK) seems
> > to behave
> > a bit funny. When selecting text in this mode, one would expect to
> > click on
> > top of a charactar to start selection from that point and not
> > between two
> > chars as in line caret mode. Unless I'm overseeing something, it's
> > very easy
> > to select the charactar next to the intended one by mistake. Any
> > ideas on
> > this?
> I expect the block caret was implemented for a vi emulation mode,
> and didn't change anything not needed for that.
> ---------
>  
> Hello,
>  
> Yes, I understand but I would be surprised if this is the way vi or
> vim behaves. Actually, my issue seems very much related to the word
> selection patch you just commited (which I haven't had the time to try
> yet):
>  
> "Thus the mouse click is now resolved to a character position rather
> than an inter-character position"
>  
> If I understand it correctly, that change only applies to double
> clicks. However, I think the same behaviour would be expected for a
> single click + drag when marking text. This would be independent of
> the caret style.
>  
> In addition, in caret blockstyle mode even a single mouse click
> without drag should always be resolved to a character position. That's
> at least how I would expect it.
>  
> Best,
>  
> Nicholai

> "Thus the mouse click is now resolved to a character position rather than an
> inter-character position"

> If I understand it correctly, that change only applies to double clicks.
> However, I think the same behaviour would be expected for a single click +
> drag when marking text. This would be independent of the caret style.

<nyamaton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> Ever since Smalltalk, GUI editors have resolved mouse clicks to
> inter-character positions rather than character positions.
> See Byte August 1981, section "Making a Selection":
> <http://carlstrom.com/stanford/cs242/readings/11.pdf>
> ------------
>  
> Seems you're right but at least from that description it seems that
> Smalltalk would show a line caret in the intercharacter gap for the
> "draw-through" operation. I don't know if it did use a block caret at
> all.
>  
> Personally, I don't see the logic of selecting the charactar next to
> the one the user clicks on in block caret mode. The editors I'm used
> to don't do that (and they are indeed not older than 1981 ;-) but
> maybe that differs between editors.