Basically your in favour of giving the suicidal user access to an entire rope
factory worth of rope. Not only should he hang himself, but wrap himself up
neatly and post off to his Maker. ;-)
Seriously, this is a "where to draw the line" problem. I'd say that things
are fine now. Others may disagree.
Angus
On Monday 22 January 2001 11:52, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:14:46AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2001 11:05, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > > I've already made changes that prevent inserting empty labels,
> > > as this was the behaviour in 1.1.5. Why do we need empty
> > > references ?
> >
> > Or empty Citations, or empty anything else for that matter. Perhaps we
should
> > use the philosopy "give him enough rope to hang himself with". In other
> > words, if the user really wants an empty inset (for whatever, unknown,
> > personal reason) then let him have it. The sane, intelligent user would
of
> > course just press Cancel.
>
> The reason I made the changes is that I wanted that when you insert
> a reference, the previously inserted reference will be selected in the
dialog.
>
> We can have the above behavior, and the ability to add empty reference, if
> we make the Ref: button in the dialog editable. This will also allow to add
> references not in the current document, but this is desired feature
> according to the above philosophy.
