From: ericzen (ericzen@EZ-NET.COM)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 17:45:05 EDT
On 2002.10.17 16:26 Hubert Figuiere wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:51:53 +1000 (EST)
> From: Martin Sevior <msevior@baker1.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: The page up/Page down debate.
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> Hi Folks,
> I'm currently fixing 4159 (segfault on page up/down on a big doc
> with tables.) While I'm fixing this it would be *extremely* easy to change
> the page up/ page down behaviour to move the cursor to the next/previous
> screen.
>
> I personally would prefer this but for some strange reason MS Word does
> not do it.
>
> So let's have the debate one more time. Who wants the cursor to move to
> the new screen when we page up/page down?
>
> Who wants to keep the cursor inthe same position (as it does now).
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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I think this was discussed on the HIG at one point or another. It's generally preferred. In fact, it's already implemented in many of the basic applications (including GEdit, as I learned oh-so-recently). However, I can also understand why someone may want the text cursor to remain, so as to return quickly to a specific place--particularly useful in large documents. Maybe a "bookmarker" like feature can be implemented sometime around "AbiWord VI: The Undiscovered Coder"...or sooner.
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