[8549] in Athena Bugs
Re: forwarded message from tom palka
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Nov 7 18:17:29 1991
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 18:17:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: ckclark@mit.edu
Cc: tompalka@Athena.MIT.EDU, bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: <9111072001.AA10763@hal-2000.MIT.EDU>
> What were you trying to do?
> do printer setup.
> What's wrong:
> when I enter the printer name, I can backspace all over the label "Name
> of printer:", and when I start typing when the cursor is under the label
> it accepts input.
This bug report is slightly inaccurate.
When you type, the cursor advances, but the characters are IGNORED.
Only when the cursor passes out of the un-protected label field do
characters begin to be echoed. The printer name you get consists SOLELY
of the characters that are actually echoed.
I grant you that being able to position the cursor in the label, and not
having it warp to the end when you start typing is a little disorienting.
But I like it better than having to have stupid little rectangles to
confine your text.
I've forwarded the bug report to cmu.
Maybe some clever soul will find a way to fence in text so that when you
try to modify it, the cursor warps to the end of the fence.
-wdc
