Re: Caret

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:11:11 +0200

> From: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:03:14 +0100
> Cc: Martin Dürst <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>,
> Jeff Senn <senn_at_maya.com>, Unicode Mailing List <unicode_at_unicode.org>
>
> Highlighted selection is less a problem because this involves separate
> actions to mark the start and end of selection. And an explicit move action
> or separate clicks : the user chose himself to perform those actions and
> knows where he comes from and where he is going to.

True, but not necessarily relevant. The common part is that in both
these situations it is desirable to show the entire range of
characters between 2 positions.

> In addition the selction is marked as a whole, and is not just two
> tiny positions.

Which might actually suggest a solution: temporarily highlight the
characters in between.
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