forward_cursor_position


Description:

public bool forward_cursor_position ()

Moves this forward by a single cursor position.

Cursor positions are (unsurprisingly) positions where the cursor can appear. Perhaps surprisingly, there may not be a cursor position between all characters. The most common example for European languages would be a carriage return/newline sequence. For some Unicode characters, the equivalent of say the letter “a” with an accent mark will be represented as two characters, first the letter then a "combining mark" that causes the accent to be rendered; so the cursor can’t go between those two characters. See also the LogAttr-struct and @break function.

Parameters:

this

a TextIter

Returns:

true if we moved and the new position is dereferenceable




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