Subject: Re: Cursor movement
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 18:27:43 CDT
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> sam th wrote:
> >
> > If you are interested in cursor movement stuff, I suggest checking out
> > Mike Nordell's Cursor Class patch, which I will find and put in my patch
> > archive soon. He had to do work for money, and left the list soon after
> > posting the patch, but I think it had potential.
>
> There's always place for improvements, but as a first shot at it I didn't
> think it was too bad. :-)
>
> IIRC Jesper Skov made some (massive?) cleanup regarding runs, fl_Layout and
> so on, and if that's the case the cursor stuff are probably even less fit
> for public consumption than it was at the time. Maybe even misleading. But
> besides these points, that code might contain some good ideas.
I really liked the idea, and the parts of the implementation I read were
good too. I think that if that, plus everything Jesper wants to do (and
has done) works together, our backend will be lots happier.
>
> I'm still on the list and read it from time to time, though the (somedays
> massive) amount might get me to miss something. I hope to back to contribute
> before 0.7.11, but I wouldn't hold my breath at this time.
Good to know you're still around.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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