Merge paragraphs of different non-Default/Plain Layouts

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Thu Jul 23 04:46:34 UTC 2020


On 2020-07-23 06:43, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 7/23/20 12:32 AM, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2020-07-22 21:15, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 7/22/20 2:19 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>> Le 22/07/2020 à 19:27, Daniel a écrit :
>>>>> I guess there should be some kind of reaction when backspace is
>>>>> pressed for the first time. Maybe select from the end of the previous
>>>>> paragraph to the start of the current paragraph via
>>>>> LFUN_CHAR_BACKWARD_SELECT? Anyway, for me it is hard to say whether
>>>>> this is a reasonable compromise since I still don't know what was the
>>>>> reason for the current behavior one. Can you see from git who added
>>>>> the comment? Is that person still around to ask?
>>>>
>>>> I guess the reason is : assume you have a section and a subsection;
>>>> you merge using backspace. What is the layout of the only paragraph
>>>> remaining?
>>>
>>> Whatever the first one is: section, I'm assuming.
>>>
>>> I tend to see this when, e.g., I'm in the first entry of a list, and I
>>> decide I don't want a list, so I hit backspace, and nothing happens. I
>>> expect it to merge with the previous paragraph.
>>
>> Yes, I would have expected the same. And it already seems works that
>> way in some cases. For example, if there is a section first and a
>> default paragraph second and one hits backspace at the beginning of
>> the default paragraph, the only layout of the paragraph remaining is
>> section.
> 
> If the paragraph where the cursor is is default, then this works, yes.
> But in no other case.

Yes, that's what I meant. And this kind of merging seems to me the 
intuitive merging of layouts. I don't see why it isn't in other cases.

Daniel





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