Hello...

John Wingfield wrote in message <35F03516.36EC29E0@kcl.ac.uk>...
>What exactly is going to be added?  I can't make it out - will
"normal mode" be
>optional?


And others are wondering... so I collected the relevant posts:

Philippe Debar wrote in message <35e99ce8.0@news.povray.org>...
>The new povwin editor really is great. And, as everything,
>as always, as everywhere, it can get even better.
>(...)
>Here are two last suggestion that I know are in conflict
>with actual pov team orientation.
>(...)
>(2) The editor behaviour which permits to select where
>there aren't any character is really great. But a normal
>text editor behaviour (like the last one) is more
>convenient most of the time (I kinda checked this, I
>watched myself working). This means: snap to the end of
>line clicked in 'vacuum', left and right arrows can jump
>to the previous or next line, don't add space at the end
>of lines when inserting a carriage return in the 'vacuum'.
>The 'select anywhere' feature could be used with
>ctrl+click, like the collumn selection (this would be
>coherent). Or you could toggle edit modes.


povray.org admin team wrote in message
<35eb5934.93688056@news.povray.org>...
>The 'click anywhere' feature of the editor is internal to the editor
control
>and is not able to be changed by us.


povray.org admin team wrote in message
<35f031e9.215343587@news.povray.org>...
>After some discussion with the author of the edit control we've
worked out a
>way to add this. It'll be in the next beta (or the release if there's
no next
>beta).


So, it does seem that the team plans to implement a toggle or an
access key to switch between the two modes.

I know nobody stated this explicitly, but it is logical from the flow
of the posts, the more so because:
* Many people ask for the actual mode, me included
  there are many cases where  it is very usefull;
* I don't see why they would remove a feature of pov -
   that would be trashing perfectly good work ;
* They wrote ADD, not remove or change.

I hope this clear things a bit,

Thank you everybody,

Povingly,

Philippe

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