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That's not true though. The remainder of the text buffer is shifted. It really is a deletion and not an addition.
by bckr 4y ago
That's not true though. The remainder of the text buffer is shifted. It really is a deletion and not an addition.
- ghodith 4y agoI mean, that's true if you think of a space as exclusively a character. In the physical meaning of the word, what exists in place of the original character is now an empty 'space'. In some pedantic sense you have truly added space where there was once none.
- lloeki 4y agoConsider the behaviour before or after either newlines in plaintext or paragraph ends in word processors. Also soft wrapping. It is truly a deletion now.