Thread: [java-gnome-hackers] TextBuffer TextIter methods

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Another minor design question. In TreeModel one finds methods like:

        getIterFirst()     
        getIter(TreePath)  // convert a TreePath

returning TreeIters.

In TextBuffer, there are:

        getStartIter(),
        getEndIter(), and
        getIterAtMark(TextMark)

which return TextIters.

Uniformity is important, so yYou can probably guess where I'm heading.

I am chafing at the asymmetry between TextBuffer and TreeModel's
"iterator" retrieving methods. I am therefore considering presenting our
public API as:

        getIterStart(),
        getIterEnd(), and
        getIter(TextMark)

instead. The completion space at getIter<COMPLETE> looks a lot better.

AfC
Sydney