Comment 89 for bug 129403

@fme, @fl:
 Thank you very much, from many of us users, for starting to do something about
this issue. I don't know if this is the right forum to develop a spec, but here
you surely have an involved audience! :-)

I would like to help with a suggestion that might solve two problems: (a) what
to display when there are more than the two (or three) spaces which will fit
outside the text area; (b) providing user feedback, particularly on Delete
operations.

(a) When there are more spaces than two (or three), display a new glyph instead;
I nominate the "big dot" as somewhat intuitive.
(b) The tricky part: when a Delete operation is aimed at the new glyph, delete
all spaces that can't be displayed. Then the display changes to show the two (or
three) small dots, which behave in normal fashion for further Deletes.
If the text line is shortened within the text area, the new glyph should "bleed"
small dots into the text area, and be converted to small dots if the number of
excess spaces drops far enough.
The above is supposed to be direction-neutral, since this should work L-T-R and
R-T-L. /tj