On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:06:48AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> >> I just tested the new behavior: enter \frac{}{b}, backspace from
> >> numerator, \frac{}{b} is gone all together!
> >
> >Sure, it replaces the whole inset with the contents of the cell. If the
> >cell is empty, the inset will vanish entirely.
> >It is exactly what I want. As it has been like that for ages I'd expect
> >it is what quite a few people expect.
>
> I do *not* like this behavior because it deletes something
> unexpectedly. Bug 686 calls to remove *empty* cell with backspace or
> del, but in this case, it removes the whole structure because one of
> the cells is empty. Why should operations in the superscript of x^a_b
> removes x and its subscript? Following this logic, you should remove
> the whole matrix if you do backspace in a matrix cell. This does not
> make sense to me at all.
>
> And there is this 'del' problem. Should it behave the same as 'bs' for
> empty cell?
Del at cell end should behave as backspace at cell begin. But as this
feature is not as antique it is less widely used so I didn't reinstate
it.
Andre'
