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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: multibyte backwarddeletechar
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:13:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1011021171339.ZM14059@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011021114254.A17952@dman.com>

On Oct 21, 11:42am, Clint Adams wrote:
}
} This causes backward-delete-char to delete entire
} multibyte characters (valid in the current locale)
} rather than their component octets.

I'm a bit surprised that this wouldn't cause significant confusion in
the ZLE display code.  How did the multi-byte character get input in
the first place?  Is it displayed as occupying one character position
on the screen, or several?  If only one, doesn't the cursor end up in
the wrong place on most word- or line-oriented motions that cross it?

If we're going to support wide and/or multi-byte characters, I think we
should Do It Right, not by pasting a zillion workarounds into individual
editor functions.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net   


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-21 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-21 15:42 Clint Adams
2001-10-21 17:13 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2001-10-21 18:21   ` Clint Adams
2001-10-22  0:57 ` Geoff Wing
2001-10-22  1:50   ` Clint Adams
2001-10-22  3:23     ` Geoff Wing
2001-10-22 11:27       ` Clint Adams
2001-10-22  5:20   ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-10-22 11:32     ` Clint Adams
2001-10-22 12:02       ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-10-24 13:57         ` Clint Adams

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