[PYGTK] Insert Backspace into text widget?

[Riccardo Attilio Galli]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:58:19 +0000, Dennis Craven wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2004 08:27:22 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>> What exactly do you expect to see when you insert a backspace
>> into the buffer?  (Backspace is a control character, so it
>> is not normally "inserted into a buffer" unless you are
>> actually trying to display it in some way.  Are you expecting
>> it to move the insertion point backwards one position, or what?)
> 
> What you say makes sense. And yes, that is what I'm trying to do. I want
> to move the insertion point backwards one position, deleting the character
> that was at that position. Just like pressing the backspace key.
> 
> Maybe the insert(iter, text) function is not the answer I'm looking for...
> Do you know of a way to accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~djc

I think you're looking for
delete(start, end)
where start and end should be iters.

Ciao,
Riccardo

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