David Pokorny wrote:
The point is that a user does not think of a formula as chunks of
anything - of course they are implemented as nested insets, but they
all look like characters on the screen (not images or tables, unless
there really is a table involved) and I expect that pressing backspace
> If the chunk in front of the cursor is big you have the the options of
> - doing nothing
> - selecting the big chunk
> - immediately delete the big chunk
> - doing something even weirder.
The point is that a user does not think of a formula as chunks of
anything - of course they are implemen
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, not really. Within math if the cursor is behind an 'complex inset'
> that ordinarily would be removed by backspace we first select the inset
> and only the second backspace actually deletes it. It has been like that
> for a while and I think people
David Pokorny wrote:
Thanks for the lively discussion :)
This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand
the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but
in this particular instance, I have to disagree:
First, the current behavior is a small (but importan
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:46:11PM -0400, David Pokorny wrote:
> Thanks for the lively discussion :)
>
> This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand
> the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but
> in this particular instance, I have to disagree:
>
David Pokorny wrote:
So the argument is that the following change to the behavior of the
backspace key is both easier to learn for new users and more useful
for all users:
* Both inside and outside math, typing a backspace when the cursor is
adjacent to the right hand side of an inset moves th
Thanks for the lively discussion :)
This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand
the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but
in this particular instance, I have to disagree:
First, the current behavior is a small (but important) violation of
the pri
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >This is easily remedied by typing undo,
> >but it is a minor nuisance. The behavior my "automatic brain" expects
> >is either
> >
> >A) what you would get by typing a left arrow followed by a backspace
> >
> You mean left arrow + d
David Pokorny wrote:
Hi,
When I'm typing math formulas, I often (accidentally) type a backspace
right after the end of a math box, deleting the entire box. When my
brain tells my right hand to hit delete, it thinks that only one
character will be deleted, so it is always a surprise (to my
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