KATE wants to be Cygwin (was: [Bug 78258] Smart EOL jumping with end-key)

KATE wants to be Cygwin (was: [Bug 78258] Smart EOL jumping with end-key)

[mwoehlke]

(http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78258 if you're curious)
Leo Savernik wrote:
> I agree with both of you and can back it with a real-life use-case: Whenever I 
> use kate for text editing (i. e. not programming -- yes, sometimes I really 
> write plain text! :-) ), I'll sometimes interrupt the flow of writing to fix 
> a mistake and then return to the end of line to continue writing.
> 
> I. e. (quotes denote limits of line, | the position of the caret)
> 
> "done. yet the result still deviates excessively |"
> 
> Now I notice the missing capital "Y" and thus press Home and Ctrl+-> twice, 
> then correct it, leaving us with
> 
> "done. Y|et the result still deviates excessively "
> 
> then I press End 
> 
> "done. Yet the result still deviates excessively| "
> 
> and implying common precedence of text editors, i. e. having actually expected 
> this:
> 
> "done. Yet the result still deviates excessively |"
> 
> I immediately continue writing
> 
> "done. Yet the result still deviates excessivelyfrom the theoretical optimum.| 
> "
> 
> See the problem? This has happened to me just today *many times*. To a lesser 
> extent, this may also hit you when coding, for example parameter lists:
> "  void foo(int a, |"
> 
> To use usability newspeak: Kate's current behaviour doesn't obey the principle 
> of least surprise.

MSFTEU! :-)

(Sorry, I thought it was funny...)

-- 
Matthew
"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad... You must be, or you wouldn't 
have come here." -- The Cheshire Cat