Level 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I ask another question?
A better question is "can I answer?" Gmane seems to be ignoring me today. > Is there a "select and carry" function? In many > word processors, you can select a sentance, and then click somewhere in the > middle of the sentence and drag it to somewhere else in the paper. The > better ones will correct spacing and capitalization for you, but it doesn't > seem like this works in LyX. > Not that I'm aware of. There is, of course, cut and paste. Also, you can highlight the sentence, middle-click somewhere else, and the sentence is pasted where you clicked (without affecting the original instance). LyX does not automatically adjust capitalization (and boy, do I hate it when Word or Word Perfect does -- half the time I have to dink around with delete and retype to undo that). It does half the job with spacing: if your paste action creates a double space, it will collapse it to a single space; but if you paste with no space between the sentences, it will not insert a space. I'm sympathetic to the latter -- that period after which you are pasting could be a decimal point or a dot inside a string, in which case an inserted space would be incorrect. Incidentally, there are functions for selecting the next/previous character, preceding/following word, from the cursor down/up one line, from the cursor to the start/end of the current line, or from the cursor to the start/end of the current paragraph. AFAIK most of these do not have key shortcuts, but you can create your own shortcuts for them in your bind file. There is not, however, a function to select the sentence containing the cursor. Double-clicking between characters selects the word, and triple-clicking between characters selects the line, but no way to select a sentence other than manual highlight (AFAIK). /Paul
