On 7/23/20 12:46 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 2020-07-23 06:43, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 7/23/20 12:32 AM, Daniel wrote: >>> On 2020-07-22 21:15, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>>> On 7/22/20 2:19 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>> Le 22/07/2020 à 19:27, Daniel a écrit : >>>>>> I guess there should be some kind of reaction when backspace is >>>>>> pressed for the first time. Maybe select from the end of the >>>>>> previous >>>>>> paragraph to the start of the current paragraph via >>>>>> LFUN_CHAR_BACKWARD_SELECT? Anyway, for me it is hard to say whether >>>>>> this is a reasonable compromise since I still don't know what was >>>>>> the >>>>>> reason for the current behavior one. Can you see from git who added >>>>>> the comment? Is that person still around to ask? >>>>> >>>>> I guess the reason is : assume you have a section and a subsection; >>>>> you merge using backspace. What is the layout of the only paragraph >>>>> remaining? >>>> >>>> Whatever the first one is: section, I'm assuming. >>>> >>>> I tend to see this when, e.g., I'm in the first entry of a list, and I >>>> decide I don't want a list, so I hit backspace, and nothing happens. I >>>> expect it to merge with the previous paragraph. >>> >>> Yes, I would have expected the same. And it already seems works that >>> way in some cases. For example, if there is a section first and a >>> default paragraph second and one hits backspace at the beginning of >>> the default paragraph, the only layout of the paragraph remaining is >>> section. >> >> If the paragraph where the cursor is is default, then this works, yes. >> But in no other case. > > Yes, that's what I meant. And this kind of merging seems to me the > intuitive merging of layouts. I don't see why it isn't in other cases.
I agree, though we'll have to see what other people think. Possibly a preference? Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
