Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
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
Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't see any advantages for mouse drag-and-drop text against copy and paste with shortcuts. Perhaps only for those who are not touch-typists and used to using the pointy device for everything. Rich
Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
> > 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. I can't see any advantages for mouse drag-and-drop text against copy and paste with shortcuts. Regards Marcelo
Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 12:11:57 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. You're welcome to file an enhancement request for this on the bug reporter, at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome When it might get done would depend upon whether someone feels compelled to do it. Of course, you could always do it yourself Richard
Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 12:11:57 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. > > > Many thanks! > Jose If you all do implement this feature, please include a switch to turn it off. Personally I'd prefer it be turned off by default, and if it's turned on by default, please widely publicize the change. The way I work, dragging and dropping of text is a sure way to garble a document. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1
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. Many thanks! Jose
