Norbert Nemec wrote: > currently, hitting the <Del> key with some text marked is equivalent > with doing a <Cut> (Win: Ctrl-X). I.e.: the text in the buffer is > replaced. > > This is not the standard behavior of desktop applications and it is > rather annoying in every day use: If you copy some text to the buffer > and want to replace several portions of text with that buffer-content
Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote: > This is extremely annoying for everybody I know who uses TeXmacs. I have > been wondering for long what the motivation might be, to present a solid > case in order for this to change. I agree. Referring to the GNU/Linux version, this is also true with the Backspace key -- it deletes highlighted text, even if that is far from where the cursor is. If I wanted the text cut, I would use Ctrl-W, so this behavior is NEVER what I want. I use Backspace to delete the character just left of the cursor. I have often made such accidental deletions. The only reason I am able to tolerate this is that undo is just one keystroke. But then I worry -- what if the highlighted text is outside the displayed part of the buffer? I might never know I had deleted it. A simple test will show that it is possible to delete text this way in the off-screen part of the document. Daniel Bump _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
