Cursor beyond EOL has unusual default

[tillea]

Hi,
with the current default setting of cursor_beyond_eol mcedit is behaving different than any other editor I know which IMHO at least a badly choosen default behaviour. I would strongly vote to keep the original behaviour and leave this new (??) behaviour as a configuration option especially because it is not really obvious to find this option.
Kind regards

Andreas.

[ossi]

do you mean ticket 1801 by any chance?

[angel_il]

I would strongly vote to keep the original behaviour...

by default you have original behaviour, this option switced off by default, just do not turned on.

[angel_il]

and... what you mean when you say "other editor"?

[angel_il]

and... all new features switched off by default.

[tillea]

Replying to ossi:

do you mean ticket 1801 by any chance?

Uhm yes. Sorry for bad research in advance

Andreas.

[tillea]

Replying to angel_il:

and... what you mean when you say "other editor"?

Any editor I ever have used in > 25 years. I never have seen an editor where I can "navigate in the void" and I do not have the slightest idea for what this is useful.

Andreas.

[ossi]

hmmm, no, we're not talking about the same thing then. the "navigation in the void" is (or at least was) a pretty common feature in programmers' editors, like the good ol' borland dos IDEs. i only object to the fact that it does not behave like in these ...

[andrew_b]

Replying to angel_il:

and... all new features switched off by default.

Really? :) This feature in ON.

edit/edit.c:78

int option_cursor_beyond_eol = 1;

[angel_il]

Replying to andrew_b:

Replying to angel_il:

and... all new features switched off by default.

Really? :) This feature in ON.

edit/edit.c:78

int option_cursor_beyond_eol = 1;

ok, need fix it :)

[angel_il]

Replying to tillea:

Replying to angel_il:

and... what you mean when you say "other editor"?

Any editor I ever have used in > 25 years.

ok, borland editors, far editor, emacs, lazarus, notepad++, codeblock, vim... and many many editors...

I never have seen an editor where I can "navigate in the void" and I do not have the slightest idea for what this is useful.

just try select vertical block with/without this option... feel different...

...and this options will be switched of by default...

[tillea]

Replying to angel_il:

ok, borland editors, far editor, emacs, lazarus, notepad++, codeblock, vim... and many many editors...

It might be that all these editors might have an option to change their behaviour but if I'm at the end of a line and press the <right-arrow> key I end up in the next line or the cursor just stops there and not in an area where the edited file has no characters at all.

just try select vertical block with/without this option... feel different...

Working with vertical blocks is a specific modus. Works perfect for instance with Emacs if you insert some spaces in the first / last line if needed - I do not remember how all the other editors behave in this modus.

...and this options will be switched of by default...

That's great and was the issue of my bug report.
Thanks

Andreas.

[angel_il]

branch: 1946_cursor_beyond_EOL_fix
changeset: 8d62484b725416686de5a410b390acc668189c27

[angel_il]

fixed: 734eff60250cb41cb0d29bd828d4a40db145f7d5

[slavazanko]

stable: fc020c39ebb23527531a721c95e69c35505c2088