default value of Right-to-left cursor movement preference

Udicoudco udifoglle at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 04:24:07 UTC 2024


On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM Richard Kimberly Heck
<rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
> That makes sense to me. But I'm not sure we can do it in 2.4.x.
> Typically, when we make this kind of change, we add something to
> prefs2prefs_prefs.py so that things do not change for existing users.
> I.e., if someone did want to use 'logical', that would not be written to
> the preferences file, since it's the default. Changing the default would
> then surprise them. So the prefs2prefs code would add
>
> \visual_cursor false
>
> if there's nothing in the existing preferences file.

Sure, that makes sense, I don't mind waiting.

Udi


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