On 26.08.2016 21:34, racoon wrote:
Hi devs and users,
I still think a more universal function of the backspace key at
beginning of paragraphs is a very good idea.
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10156
Summary:
The idea is to have backspace at the beginning of a non-default
paragraph to reset the layout to default. And a backspace at the
beginning of a default paragraph to merge with the last paragraph.
Right now only default paragraphs and paragraphs with the same layout
can be merged with backspace. For me this leads to sometimes pressing
backspace without LyX doing any changes so I have to change layouts
manually in order to merge.
Since LyX has indentation bars worries about adverse "finger-painting"
effects seem unwarranted.
It makes merging paragraphs easier. And this would also fix some
annoyances with beamer layouts (see ticket). So I think: why not.
(Though I have no idea how hard it is to implement.)
I would be interested what you think.
Here is one possible worry I just came up with (maybe that is what was
meant by the "finger-painting" problem: for paragraphs that are visually
indistinguishable from default paragraphs a backspace at the beginning
will change the paragraph to default without giving directly any visual
cue. I am not sure how grave a worry this is really.
But even though at least the merging with the previous paragraph should
always work independent of the layout. Because that a paragraph is
merged with another gives sufficient visual cue what happened (or at
least no less than merging two paragraphs of the same type or a default
paragraph to whatever type).
Daniel
