Xy cursor movement

[JLOUD@xxxxxxxx]

When I write a piece of dialog, for example:

"Goodbye," he said

(with a tab before it, of course), and then use
the control and arrow keys to move around, I find a
strange thing happening.

When I use ctrl + right arrow from the margin over, I land
on the letter g. But if I use ctrl + left arrow from anywhere
after the close-quotes, I land on the quote.

This is frustrating because I expect cursor movement to be
one character at a time, so I expect a ctrl + right arrow
to land on the open quote, not the g.

Can someone explain Xy cursor movement to me?


  "...we can only know what a thing is when we know it in
   more than one way." - Brian Aldiss, _Space Odysseys_

Tim      jloud@xxxxxxxx      Speaking only for myself.