Re: [Gzz] Encapsulating enfilade/string matching in CellTexter?

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:49:30PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > I don't agree. What setText() implies is that you can't give xanalogical
> > > addresses for the text-- for example, when a user has pasted plain text
> > into the
> > > cell. In these cases, I believe the matching to be appropriate.
> > 
> > No, the opposite: you have no idea from where the user pasted the words
> > so matching them and claiming that these are the words that mr. X wrote
> > on 27.4.2004 is not right.
> 
> If the user pastes into a cell that had content before, and there is a
> substantial match between what was there before and what is there after, 

define "substantial" ;)

Is cut&paste really going to be so common?

If yes, why not just put extedit into that point; I wouldn't like
to put this functionality into the Space API... it's really fuzzily
defined and belongs in the front-end rather than the core API and
backend.

        Tuomas