Hello! LyX is a fantastic program---I've been using it for about five years now. For the last couple years, I've been using Lyx 1.3.4 with a few modifications. Since the beta3 of Lyx 1.5.0 just came out, I thought I'd give it a spin. Overall, it's great! However, there's a few things about how some of the keys operate in math made that I find confusing.
Bug: When a math inset is at the end of the line, and the cursor is after and outside the math inset, hitting the back arrow key goes before the math inset instead of inside it. Feature request #1: I'd like enter to act like space when in math mode. I recall discussions about this many years ago, when the decision came down decisively for space. For the last several years, I've been using LyX 1.3.4 recompiled so that enter acts like space. The only difference is that in a text box inside of math mode, I want enter to end the text box, while space should put in a space. (On a side note, why does hitting enter in a text box in LyX 1.5.0 shoot the cursor outside of the text box, but in front?) I don't think there would be any harm in adding this functionality, since enter essentially doesn't do anything currently. However, it would be simple to configure this if separate LFUNs could be specificed for keys depending on whether one is currently in math mode or not. Feature request #2: While currently in math mode, pressing math mode again (ctl+m, or whatever) should exit math mode and position the cursor outside after the math inset. I think of pressing math mode again as typing another $ in LaTeX: it ends the math mode. In TeXmacs, this is the way pressing $ (the math mode command key) again works, and I vaguely seem to recall this is the way it works in Scientific Workplace with ctl+m or insert. To get a text box, one can just bind ctl+t to LFUN_FONT_DEFAULT. Since this is a drastic change from the way that LyX currently operates, it would clearly need to be user configurable. However, I'm not sure what the best way to do that is. Thanks for considering these changes! It would be great if these configurable options could be included in LyX---I really don't want to be using my own personally-compiled version of LyX again for the next 3 years! Best wishes, Stephen Hartke lastname at gmail dot com
