On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Ivan Werning wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:09 AM, BH wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Ivan Werning >> <iwern...@economics.mit.edu> wrote: >>> I have noticed the following problems with my Mac's LyX 1.6.5: >>> >>> - I cannot select text pressing SHIFT and the cursor >>> - I can no longer create a new row in a formula by pressing CMD enter >>> >>> I recently upgraded to 1.6.5, I don't know if this problem occurred a >>> result of this installation. I never know what the right thing to do answer >>> during the installer script, when prompted about overwriting and such. >>> Could that have created this problem? Maybe a key binding problem? I have >>> mine tweaked the old style, from the file, but it never created problems >>> before. >>> >>> Just in case I downloaded 1.6.4.2, the previous version I was using and I >>> found I now had the same problems. >> >> It certainly looks like a keybinding problem. Do things work properly >> if you move aside your LyX User's directory (at ~/Library/Application >> Support/LyX-1.6)? >> >> BH > > Thanks for your suggestion BH. > > I just moved my LyX user directory to the desktop. Started LyX back up. That > created a new user directory in my library. On startup, I got the welcome > screen (haven't seen that in ages). I starting a new file. Both problems > disappeared. I notice that the bind file being used is now mac.bind but not > the one in the (newly created) user directory, instead it is inside the LyX > package content. > > Realizing that this worked, I (deleted the newly created user directory and) > copied back my user directory to my library, but then moved my old tweaked > mac bind file from the subdirectory bind in my user directory to my desktop. > When I loaded LyX it had selected the unaltered mac bind in the package > content and things were also working fine. > > So clearly the problem is my altered mac file. Attached is my old tweaked mac > bind file. > > What is wrong with it? I know this isn't the proper way to do things anymore, > but should it be causing a problem? I never had problems until recently > (again, I don't know if it was 1.6.5 per se, or the upgrade to it). > > -Ivan
Sorry, I forgot the attachment. Here it is.
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