Glitch (bug?) in 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

Virgil Arrington Jr. cuyfalls at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 15 13:40:44 UTC 2021


On 12/15/2021 7:46 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users wrote:
> Rich, Steve,
>
> that was a rhetorical question of course  :-)-O
>
> I do however find that whenever I find myself using ERT I always try and
> look for a LyX way to do it, because I don't like ERT :-)-O
>
I do the same, but I think that Rich makes a valid point about using the 
keyboard vs. the mouse. In my experience, there are many LyX functions 
for which it appears the only way to access them is through a mouse (or 
trackpad, etc.). I'm old enough to remember working with DOS and 
WordStar style keystroke combinations and I learned to fly on the 
keyboard. Even when learning GUIs in the early days of Windows, I always 
looked for keyboard shortcuts as I hated the interruption of taking my 
fingers off the home row and onto a mouse. This is especially true in a 
function like word processing that is heavy on typing. I'm always 
frustrated when I can't easily find a keyboard shortcut for a LyX 
function, so I can understand why someone might resort to ERT just to 
avoid interrupting the flow of the work.

Virgil




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