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Originally Posted by KevinH
In your opinion. But if I typed a character, I would already know what key I just typed. And at top of file and line beginning, after the insertion point makes more sense. So not silly.
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Yeah just like the reverse is your opinion. And I was at pains to point out that in the calibre editor you can enter characters in many ways other than pressing a single key on your keyboard. Which makes knowing what character was just inserted extremely useful.
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Furthermore the only difference between an insertion point cursor and a block cursor in Qt is cursor shape, i.e. it is not a mode indicator. So "under the cursor" should indicate the char after the insertion point, which in Qt is also the character at the textcursor start position in my opinion. The most common use case is investigating strange diacritics, rare punctuation, and special whitespace chars and for that either before or after the insertion point works.
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Except that as far as I know neither the calibre book editor nor Sigil use the block cursor, so it's irrelevant to this discussion. If there was a vim mode in either it might be relevant, there isnt. For investigating characters, as you say, either convention works. For typing previous character works, next character does not. Seems pretty cut and dried to me, but I am not here to convince you to change your mind, I was simply responding to BR mentioning me.