commiting changes from owen:

Mon Mar  9 20:38:15 1998  Owen Taylor  <owt1@cornell.edu>

        * gtk/gtkentry.c gtk/gtkeditable.c gtk/gtkspinbutton.c:
          Moved "activate" to editable class. Made the vfuncs in
          gtkeditable just vfuncs not signals.

        * gtkentry.[ch] gtktext.[ch]: Made behavior when pressing
          multiple buttons at once more rational.

        * gtkentry.c gtktext.c: Unified and rationalized key
          bindings. (Now are basically emacs+CUA)

        * gtktext.c:
          - Last position now always shares the property of the preceding
            character
          - Freeze the widget when inserting large amounts of text.
          - Selecting lines now selects the _whole_ line.
          - Fixed bug with displaying the cursor
          - Ctrl-Home/End now move the cursor to the _absolute home/end

        * gtkmenuitem.c: Remove necessary code out of a g_return_if_fail

-timj

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diff --git a/docs/text_widget.txt b/docs/text_widget.txt
index 83d3b31e5a..599431f2f4 100644
--- a/docs/text_widget.txt
+++ b/docs/text_widget.txt
@@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ this index.  If you see or add a special case in the code for this
 end-of-buffer case, make sure to use LAST_INDEX if you can.  Very
 often, the last index is treated as a newline.
 
+[ One way the last index is special is that, although it is always
+  part of some property, it will never be part of a property of
+  length 1 unless there are no other characters in the text. That
+  is, its properties are always that of the preceding character,
+  if any.
+  
+  There is a fair bit of special case code to mantain this condition -
+  which is needed so that user has control over the properties of
+  characters inserted at the last position. OWT 2/9/98 ]
+
 Tab stops are variable width.  A list of tab stops is contained in the
 GtkText structure: