On 22. juni 2010 18:11, Jose A. Rodrigo wrote:
Hi!!
First of all congratulations for this useful program and brilliant
project!!
It is not possible to drag-and-drop text (just by selecting it with
mouse pointer) like other text processors i.e. OpenWriter. Do you know
when this feature will be added to lyx? I think that it will be very
useful for many users. It will be great if this option is available for
equation editing as well. Up to now I used copy and paste shortcuts.
LyX has copy+paste using mouse only - at least on linux:
1. Mark the text to be copied
2. Move the mouse to where you want to copy it
3. Press the middle mouse button. (Or both buttons, if your mouse
only have two buttons.)
Dragging a marked is something I don't miss. The keyboard shortcuts are
usually much faster than using the mouse - once you get used to them.
The reason: One has to take a hand off the keyboard, and aim the mouse
carefully. And then move the hand back to the keyboard again. When
writing, the hands are on the keyboard by default.
None of this is necessary when using keyboard shortcuts. Cut/copy, a few
cursor keys, paste. It is the faster way in openoffice too,
for that matter.
There is even a disadvantage to text dragging - it makes selecting
trickier. In LyX, if you select wrong, you can select again immediately.
You can even re-start selection in the middle of the existing selection.
This is possible only because selection dragging is not implemented.
Some mice has limited precision, and occationally mis-selects. Easy to
fix when there is no dragging.
When there is selection dragging, there is the problem of dropping the
selection in the wrong place, and the work of fixing that. This don't
happen with a keyboard paste - you don't paste until the cursor is in
the right place. But it is easy to loose the mouse button momentarily -
at least with some mice.
Helge Hafting
