[PATCH] Character classification of InsetSpecialChar

[Stephan Witt]

Am 09.08.2020 um 13:29 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org>:
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2020, 13:22 +0200 schrieb Stephan Witt:
>> while trying to fix bug 6401 (wrong navigation in text on Mac) I
>> stumbled over the question
>> if the InsetSpecialChar incarnations for LyX, LaTeX etc. are letters
>> or not. IMO they should
>> rated as letters (e.g. to get statistics right or keyboard navigation
>> for word forward/backward).
> 
> It doesn't look right. "LyX" is counted as one character, whereas it
> should be counted as three.

Yes, that’s another problem. This problem I’ve not addressed.

> This probably needs some new member that returns the number of
> characters for such sorts of insets.

That would be good of course. Do you think this can be used to solve the
problem if „LyX“ is a word delimiter or not?

Stephan