Add introduction to cursor related classes, written by JMarc.

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/*
First some explanation about what a Cursor really is. I try to go from
more local to general.
* a CursorSlice indicates the position of the cursor at local level.
It contains in particular:
* idx(): the cell that contains the cursor (for Tabular or math
arrays). Always 0 for 'plain' insets
* pit(): the index of the current paragraph (only for Texted)
* pos(): the position in the current paragraph (or in the math
equation in Mathed).
* inset(): the inset in which the cursor is.
* a DocIterator indicated the position of the cursor in the document.
It knows about the current buffer (buffer() method) and contains a
vector of CursorSlices that describes the nesting of insets up to the
point of interest. Note that operator<< has been implemented, so that
one can send a DocIterator to a stream to see its value. Try it, it is
very helpful to understand the cursor layout.
* when using idx/pit/pos on a DocIterator, one gets the information
from the inner slice (this slice can be accessed as top())
* inMathed() returns true when the cursor is in a math formula
* inTexted() returns true when the cursor is in text
* innerTextSlice() returns the deepest slice that is text (useful
when one is in a math equation and looks for the enclosing text)
* A CursorData is a descendent of Dociterator that contains
* a second DocIterator object, the anchor, that is useful when
selecting.
* some other data not interesting here
This class is used only for undo and contains the Cursor element that
are not GUI-related. In LyX 2.0, Cursor was directly deriving from
DocIterator
* A Cursor is a descendant of CursorData that contains interesting
display-related information, in particular targetX(), the horizontal
position of the cursor in pixels.
* one interesting method for what you want to do is textRow(), that
returns the inner Row object that contains the cursor
*/
#ifndef LCURSOR_H
#define LCURSOR_H