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ST80 cursor behavior in EditTextView

If enabled, the text cursor behaves as in the ST80 textView (and also as in many other editing systems), in that the cursors position is limited to the actual dimension of the underlying text (the ``text-stream'' philosophy as in the ''vi'' editor). I.e. the text cursor cannot be positioned behond the last character within a text line and cannot be positioned behond the last line vertically.

The default ST/X behavior is to treat editText as if it was on a piece-of-paper, where random-posioning is always posible, automatically adjusting the texts size as required. (the ``piece-of-paper-WYSIWYG'' philosophy, as in the ''RAND'' editor.)

ST80 double click select behavior

If enabled, text selection via double click behaves as in ST80, which is sligtly different from ST/X's normal (word-select) behavior:


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