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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:

Tab Stops in Multiples of 4

Toggles Tab Stops between multiples-of-4 and multiples-of-8.
When loading/saving code from/into a file, tab stops are always assumed to be in multiples of 8.

SearchBox is Modal

If on, text-search-boxes are modal. If off, they stay open as floating dialogs, for easier incremental search operations.
The default is modal.

CTRL-Key to Start TextDrag

If on, text-dragging out of a TextView is only initiated if the CTRL-key is pressed simultaneously.
Otherwise, a mouse-move with the left button pressed initiates a text-drag.
The default is to require the CTRL to be pressed.


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