On 2018-02-23, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:42:07AM +0000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Le 12/01/2018 à 23:28, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :

>> > I'm not sure what the desired behavior is. Perhaps if the selection
>> > contains insets of a certain type (e.g. a float), the LFUN should just
>> > abort with a relevant message in the message pain. Any other ideas on
>> > what the desired behavior is?

>> What refusing to do something if the selection is longer than, say, 50
>> paragraphs? We could count characters too, of course, but do we want to
>> transform a full document to a docstring just to be able to decide that it
>> is too long?

> Is the problem the length or is the problem that the selection contains
> insets of a type that have no natural conversion to math?

Checking for insets that cannot be converted to math should also solve most
real-life cases where this behaviour may matter.

If it is not too costly or difficult to implement, I'd prefer this.

Günter

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