On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:31:25PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >svn blames Bo for removing the feature in rev 15990: > > Me again? I won't touch anything in the core ever again! :-) > > Rev 15990 is to fix bug 686, i.e., remove empty cell from within. We > have discussed this patch many times and there was no consensus about > the intended behavior of backspace.
I was not aware that there was consensus about removing a ten year old feature. > The described behavior was > intentional and was considered appropriate by some. (BTW, if you have > an empty numerator, backspace will simply go left, not touching > \frac.) > > Bernhard, could you give an example why this change of behavior is > inconvenient to you? Not dissolving? This is highly inconvient when e.g. changing the kind of parantheses. This would mean cut the contents, step out, delete the now empty inset, paste, i.e. four steps four something that used to take one key stroke all time. Andre'
