Delete and Backspace | 17 Oct 2009

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  1. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    What is the difference between Delete and Backspace in standard editors with respect to cursor.
     
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    with delete it will remove letter right side of cursor
    and with backspace it will remove letter left side of cursor
     
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    delete - remove next character.
    backspace - remove previous character.
     
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    the difference with respect to cursor will be that
    in backspace, (the previous character is removed and) the cursor is shifted 1 character(unit) on the left
    in delete, the cursor stays there itself (and the character to the right is deleted)
     
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    Bingo Nimesh. Position of cursor does not change. :D
     
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    Congratz nimesh :)
     

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