On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Monday 12 August 2002 2:07 pm, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:50:38PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:45:04PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > > Why do we need 3 states for ERT insets (open, collapsed, and inline) ? > > > > In my opinion, the open state has no advantage over the inline state. > > > > So in my opinion, we can just have inline & collapsed states. > > > > Then, the ERT dialog can be removed (pressing the 2nd mouse button in > > > > an inline inset will collapse the inset, and pressing the 1st on 2nd > > > > mouse button on a collapse inset will make it inline). > > > > > > Inline has the "advantage" of being less intrusive and shortens things a > > > bit. > > > > This doesn't contradict what I've written above. > > Surely you mean to retain Open and Collapsed, not Inline and Collapsed?
No, I meant Inline and Collapsed. > I occasionally have an ERT inset containing several lines of LaTeX. I'm sure > Herbert has too... You can have more than one line of text in an inline ERT inset. In that case, it behaves exactly as an Open ERT inset (except that there is no button at the top).