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[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/28/20 3:00 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/28/20 2:55 PM, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2020-03-28 19:47, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 3/28/20 5:17 AM, Daniel wrote:
>>>> On 2020-03-28 04:27, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>>>> On 3/27/20 2:48 PM, racoon wrote:
>>>>>> On 2020-03-27 19:25, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>> Thanks. That works better. Yes, losing the selection isn't perfect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Btw. the action input field suffers from the same problem as the
>>>>>> shortcut editor, e.g. it masks line-breaks which make a command fail.
>>>>> I don't know if there is any easy solution to this. I think I'd regard
>>>>> it as a Qt bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> Riki
>>>> Yes, might be a bug. I have checked the input fields in Scribus and
>>>> they
>>>> exhibit the same problem.
>>>>
>>>> However, as far as I understood, there is a function to determine which
>>>> characters are valid input. Maybe that helps? Here is an example:
>>>>
>>>> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qregexpvalidator.html#details
>>>>
>>>> Maybe one could set the validator to a regex that does not match any
>>>> newline (\n) or return (\r)? But I don't know enough about Qt or regex.
>>> It wouldn't really help. That would prevent you from actually saving the
>>> shortcut, but you'd be totally stumped why. (Well, not you, but most
>>> users.)
>>>
>>> Riki
>> Okay, then I seem to have misunderstood what the validator is doing.
>>
>> "Sets this line edit to only accept input that the validator, v, will
>> accept." (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlineedit.html#setValidator)
>>
>> That sounded to me as if the *input* would be limited. And I'd hoped
>> that on paste the characters would be stripped (or the string cut off at
>> the first occurrence).
> Yes, sorry. In that case, it wouldn't let you paste it at all. Maybe
> that's better, though.

Hmm. In some cases, it won't let you paste, but using our
NoNewLineValidator, it does, and it just removes the CR.

Riki