On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >>>>I can't even unapply a change of some text to bold in mathed without
> >>>>running round the houses.
> >>>What's wrong with <Pos1> <Backspace>?
> >>
> >>People don't think of text as formulas. In the text, I expect
> >>backspace to erase the character (or other object) to the left of the
> >>cursor.
I agree with Helge here, and it reminded me of a behaviour that's
sometimes annoying in mathed. It happens quite often that I delete the
previous 'box' without intending to when using the backspace key. An
example (just imagine that the latex is actually math in mathed, and '|'
is the cursor):
a^2+\textrm{aFunction}|
Pressing backspace now, leaves me with a measly a^2+ :-(
Anyway, I just remembered that this is something that frequently has
annoyed me. Not that I know what to do about it though, because at other
times it's really convenient to be able to delete an entire block at
once...
It would be nice if our keyboards were force sensitive sometimes.. then
I could simply press backspace a bit harder to get it to delete a block.
A blue sky idea here might be to have a single backspace keypress delete a
simple 'character' to the left if there is one, and if there's a 'box' to
the left, you have to press backspace twice?
In case that was unclear, here's an example:
a^2+\textrm{aFunction}+2|
pressing backspace gives
a^2+\textrm{aFunction}+|
backspace again...
a^2+\textrm{aFunction}|
now when you press backspace, the textinset isn't deleted, but highlighted
and a cute text shows up on the statusbar saying "Press delete again to
actually delete".
a^2+\textrm{aFunction}|
\---delete?------\
and then when you press delete again, you end up with
a^2+|
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
