Darren Freeman wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Darren Freeman wrote:
It feels more natural to have all my key-presses honoured on the screen.
When certain keys are sometimes disabled, it just doesn't feel right.
There are lots of limitations like that.
You can't use the right-arrow to move the cursor past the
end of the document either - even if you might want
to put some text in the lower-right corner.
And you can't erase past the beginning of the document,
Now you're being silly. You can't do that in ordinary text editors
either.
There are certainly editors that lets you move the cursor
way out to the right even if there is nothing there. If you
then type something there, a long string of spaces is
inserted automatically so you get your huge indentation.
This style of editor was popular among programmers, as
this is a reasonable operation on source code where
indentation matters. I know people who got upset
by "stream oriented" editors that didn't let them do this.
I'm not talking about a functional change, I'm talking about a user
interface change back to past behaviour that was probably once
considered "correct".
LyX never had this for normal text.
You can press several spaces in a row using the style LyX-Code,
and that's it. This because LyX recognises this special need
for printed computer code.
Helge Hafting
