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Richard Kimberly Heck
rikiheck at lyx.org
Fri Mar 27 18:25:13 UTC 2020
On 3/27/20 2:21 PM, racoon wrote:
> On 2020-03-27 17:52, racoon wrote:
>> On 2020-03-27 17:41, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 3/27/20 4:21 AM, Daniel wrote:
>>>> On 2020-03-19 15:03, racoon wrote:
>>>>> On 2020-03-19 14:53, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, you could assign something like "command-sequence
>>>>>> self-insert s;
>>>>>> char-delete-backward; buffer-write" to Ctrl-S. Undo won't work,
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> then the document isn't dirty again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Riki
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, when the settings dialog is closed and re-opened
>>>>> everything that comes after the first semi-colon is chopped off. Is
>>>>> that
>>>>> a bug?
>>>>
>>>> Oddly enough, it is possible to use similar command sequences. So, the
>>>> problem isn't general. For example,
>>>>
>>>> command-sequence self-insert .; space-insert normal
>>>>
>>>> just works fine (see https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11798#comment:6).
>>>> I don't know what the difference might be.
>>>
>>> Don't see it here.
>>>
>>> You can put it manually into your user.bind file if need be.
>>>
>>> Riki
>>
>> Thanks, that helped. And I figured out what the problem was. I copied
>> the command from your email not knowing that my email program had
>> inserted a line-break after the first command in the sequence.
>> Unfortunately, the input box in the shortcut editor masked this. I guess
>> it would be better if text pasted into the input box was cleaned of
>> characters it does not support rather than just hiding them.
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
> Seems like at least this particular command sequence is not such a good
> idea. I just realized that it wrecks havoc if there is an active
> selection of text because the text gets removed.
Try adding "escape" first. That clears the selection. Of course, you
lose the selection.
Riki
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