[PD] future of the "Text Editor"

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Now that cut/copy/paste works in all object boxes, comments, etc.  
>> on all platforms, is there any reason to keep the "Text Editor"?
>
> Shift+arrows : select
> Ctrl+arrows : skip words
> Shift+Ctrl+arrows : both
> Home, End
> Shift+Home, Shift+End.
> Triple-click (should select a whole line).
>
> I probably forgot some other things.

Some of those things are there already, like Home, End, Ctrl-a/Ctrl-e  
emacs bindings, and I think I could add the others with a 'bind'.   
Matju, in DD you are embedding a full 'text' widget into the canvas  
using a window?

.hc


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