On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > I agree with Helge here, and it reminded me of a behaviour that's > sometimes annoying in mathed. It happens quite often that I delete the > previous 'box' without intending to when using the backspace key. An > example (just imagine that the latex is actually math in mathed, and '|' > is the cursor): > > a^2+\textrm{aFunction}| > > Pressing backspace now, leaves me with a measly a^2+ :-( > > Anyway, I just remembered that this is something that frequently has > annoyed me. Not that I know what to do about it though, because at other > times it's really convenient to be able to delete an entire block at > once... > > It would be nice if our keyboards were force sensitive sometimes.. then > I could simply press backspace a bit harder to get it to delete a block. > > A blue sky idea here might be to have a single backspace keypress delete a > simple 'character' to the left if there is one, and if there's a 'box' to > the left, you have to press backspace twice?
This gives the impression your keyboard is stuck. I tried this already. The most annoying 'feature' in this area is that undo does not set the cursor properly... > now when you press backspace, the textinset isn't deleted, but highlighted > and a cute text shows up on the statusbar saying "Press delete again to > actually delete". > > a^2+\textrm{aFunction}| > \---delete?------\ > > and then when you press delete again, you end up with Hm... highlighting might indeed be an option as the first backspace is not silently swallowed. Andre'