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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Text widget question
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Date: 6 Jun 90 16:01:23 GMT
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> Question: One of the two: "end" (in the arguments), or "length" in the 
> textblock, seem to be redundant; is that so?  If not, what if,
>	start + length - 1 is not the same as "end"?

XawTextReplace not only adds text to the file, but also remove text.  The text
between "start" and "end" is removed and then "length" characters are inserted
from the string into the Text widget.  I will refer you to the last paragraph of
section 5.4.3 in the Athena Widget docs for details. 


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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