Re: Improve word boundaries for text widgets

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:47:31AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > I agree that we probably need a vfunc - there's different use cases
> > that need different variants: natural language, code, xml, etc. For
> > best results, we may even want a way to use different word breaking
> > rules in different regions of the buffer. As an example, you might
> > have comments embedded in code.
>
> So having better defaults in GTK+ would be a first step, I think it's
> more important. The vfunc can be added later.

I think I want the default in GtkTextView/Pango to stay basically
Unicode. So the vfunc may be needed sooner if you want to have
vim-like behaviour in GtkSourceView.