On 12/09/2018 16:12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 12/09/2018 à 16:01, Daniel a écrit :
I am not so sure about the original paragraph becoming default
layout. I guess it is not uncommon to replace the content of a
paragraph by something else while cutting its content before the
replacement. (Libre office, for example, does not set the paragraph
to default either.)
Furthermore, I guess the only difference between delete and cut should
be that the latter moves stuff into the clipboard. At least that is
how it works in my experience.
In some sense, the semantics of your original proposal is "selecting the
whole paragraph selects the layout too". In this sense, the layout could
be deleted with Delete too.
I understand this might be too much or inconvenient at times, but we
should definitely not go towards complicated semantics that are supposed
to do the right thing according to what we believe the user is doing. I
really dislike when I have to fight against office 2010 "guessing" what
I am wanting to do.
My point is that I would prefer to have a semantics of what happens that
can be explained on one sentence rather than many ad-hoc behaviors. It
is like the code that removes leading spaces of paragraphs of #10503.
Somebody probably had a use case in mind when implementing what seems so
stupid to us today.
There might be a misunderstanding. The behaviour I suggest comes from
Libre Writer not MS Office. And, if I see it correctly, it can be
explained in one sentence:
"Just as in Libre Office."
Just kidding ;)
Maybe,
"Pasting changes the format if and only if the pasted content is a full
paragraph and the target is an empty paragraph."
Deleting/cutting stays as it is in LyX (and Libre Office):
"Deleting/cutting a full paragraph leaves the layout untouched."
I find it quite intuitive.
/Daniel
