On 22/07/2005, at 9.49, Luc Heinrich wrote:
[...] This is one of those case where all I can say is "this looks so wrong that there is probably something obvious that I miss, or simply don't get". So feel free to enlighten me ;)
Yes, I think you're overlooking that TextMate supports column selections of arbitrary size, the 0-width version is just one size. Overtyping the selection is also only one of several things you can do with the selection, and you can do it no matter what type of selection or size it has.
For a more verbose version of the above: http://macromates.com:3000/ read/chapter/7
So I'm not really sure what you're advocating here -- you'd want TM to switch visual rendering of the selection when it's 0 columns wide and/or when you overtype it? that'd be rather weird...