Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 352 at 2011-11-26.
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GTK2.TextIter

Method GTK2.TextIter()->forward_cursor_position()


Method forward_cursor_position

int forward_cursor_position()

Description

Moves this iterator 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 Pango.LogAttr and pango_break().