Marc Champagne <nos### [at] pleasecom> wrote in 
news:Xns### [at] 204213191226:

> "Constrain Caret to Text" did the trick, I have seen this option a many
> of times and even looked it up in the help a few times but was unable to
> figure out what it meant. (Caret=Cursor). 

That's called "Virtual Space"... Ie. the caret moves freely in the window 
space, and if you start to type while on the left of a line end, the editor 
will add spaces to fill the gap.
I don't like this mode, so I set the above option as soon as I can...
Now, other people like it, as they hate to see the caret jumps from a line 
end to another. This is a feature request for Scintilla, but nobody seems in 
a hurry to implement it :-)

Note: caret != cursor, at least on GUI environments (it may be true on Dos 
without mouse support...).
Cursor = mouse position indicator.
Caret  = current text input position.

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