On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:08 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/20 6:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:45:59PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > On 11/30/20 5:13 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > Scott: Perhaps you can alleviate my confusion here. > > Thanks for joining the conversation, Paul. It seems we have a mystery. > > > I use the CUA bind file > (with a couple of tweaks) and have the same binding for Tab that you listed. > In the preferences dialog, tab completion is on for math mode and off for > text mode. > > Just to be clear, I think you mean *automatic* completion is on for > math mode and off for text mode. It took me a while to understand the > distinction. > > > In a math inset, if I type something like \right and start > playing with the tab key, it does various completion tasks. If I'm not part > way into a LaTeX command (but, say, in an align* environment), tabbing moves > from cell to cell. > > In a text table, Tab moves from cell to cell, period. I do *not* under any > circumstances get prompted to do word completion. (If it matters, I do have > continuous spell checking on, using Enchant.) So I can't reproduce the > problem. > > While I'm not complaining, either I don't understand the problem or > you and Maria both failed to appease some digital deity with whom I am > apparently on good terms. > > Well shoot, I was hoping it was the opposite---that some deity was doing me a > favor by trying to help with completion, and all I would have to do is piss > them off. Gaining their favor seems much more challenging. > > > This is on Linux Mint 20, so behavior should be the same as on Ubuntu Focal. > > Interesting differences. If in preferences you turn automatic completion on > for text, does that change anything? If not, it might just be that completion > in text mode is (conveniently) broken for you. > > Scott > > > As it turns out, I can reproduce the behavior using Maria's example. > Apparently I just did not have enough surrounding text in previous attempts > ... and apparently I've lived a charmed life using tables so far. > > An interesting related behavior has to do with the escape key. In other > programs (such as programming IDEs), if I get autocompletion hints I don't > want, I typically hit the escape key to get rid of them. So, having > reproduced the problem with Maria's help, my instinct was to hit Esc and > then Tab ... except Esc boots me out of the table. I can understand the > logic (sort of), but I wonder if there is a way to repurpose the escape key > to just stop hints without moving the cursor? > Yes, the way this autocomplete function behaves is very unhelpful and impossible to control, which is why I was looking for ways to turn it off... Even if hitting Esc twice allowed Tab to move on to the next cell, it would be better than what currently happens. > > In any case, perhaps the input completion settings for text should have > one more option that turns off tab completions entirely in the text (but > not in math mode). > I just went to see if a bug report exists on this, and it looks like this is related, and still open: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9207 I guess we'll wait. > > Paul > > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >
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