Re: [9front] Bug or inconsistency in cursor behaviour?

["Scott Flowers" <flowerss@cranky.ca>]

I am declaring my fingers' inability to get used to the existing behaviour in rio and acme to be a human software bug, and I'm keeping my patch on my machines. As Sigrid once said, "it's your system, do what you want."

Scott

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, at 03:59, hiro wrote:
> > There is a logical argument to the Plan 9 behavior: First, the cursor
> > disappears when you make a selection because the cursor *IS* the
> > selection.
> 
> may i point out that this is the perceived behavior on windows due to
> common vision limitations? the designers were aware of this visual
> difficulty or they wouldn't have made the cursor blink. yet the edge
> becomes nearly-undetectable in the edge-case of selection. who knows
> if they ever noticed the lack of intuition in this pattern?
> 
> regardless there remains a logic i feel some plan9 folks might not
> know about: the blinking cursor helps suggest whether selection will
> be added to or removed from via keyboard actions
> (shift-left/shift-right), a feature that does not exist on plan9.
> otherwise it exclusively confuses the well-sighted. at least in some
> applications: i'm not sure if rob pike managed to infiltrate the
> mozilla headquarters and forced them to remove that cursor, but it's
> missing in my firefox.
>