On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:45:07PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > Well, I personally think that by supporting this rare and absolutely not > > useful use case we will shoot our foot ourself. > > OK, here's a more useful one: > > "<foo>this is my text</foo>" > select "is my", hit "none" > "<foo>this</foo> is my <foo>text</foo>"
Here's another example (metaphor): |line of text press <space><space><space> |line of text, indented Why doesn't this work? Ought to work, right, in an intuitive UI? ;-) > Do you really want to force users to > - dissolve everything, No, the user is doing this to himself. He made an _error_. The canonical way to correct an error is to 1) undo it, 2) do it again, this time right. The circumstance that font attributes allow you to shortcut this doesn't _entitle_ you to the same shortcut in an entirely different paradigmatic context. Most people learn quickly from their errors. This will be a rare case. > - select "this" > - hit "foo" > - select "text" > - hit "foo" Two selection and insertion operations, just like your proposed method. > to get to this result? > > Jürgen - Martin
