On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:39AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > Not if the chunk is larger than you'd might expect. > > You're tying yourself up in knots precisely because you won't do the > right thing: delete the character in front of the cursor.
No. I usually want to delete entities when there are entities in front of the cursors. It more often makes sense to delete the entity than part of it. If one wants to delete part of the entities, one goes inside and removes "complete parts" > > In this case it is not even annoying to have to press delet twice. > > We've done that for math for a few years now and nobody complained. > > Before that we had a few complaints about "not knowing what will get > > deleted". > > Mathed is different. I don't know how many times I have to say this before > it sinks in :( It doesn't make it more true. Text is just a special case of "linear math". So whatever applies to text-in-math, also applies to text. Same old discussion. Andre'
