How to paste into LyX-Code ?!!

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Nov 19 00:41:55 UTC 2021


Daniel said on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:48:07 +0100

>On 2021-11-17 23:28, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Daniel said on Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:44:23 +0100
>>   
>>> On 17/11/2021 10:01, Steve Litt wrote:  
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a C program I want to show in a book. So I use the LyX-Code
>>>> environment, but when I copy the C file to the clipboard and paste
>>>> it into the LyX-Code environment, all the newlines are removed.
>>>> What's the right way to show a C program file within LyX?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> SteveT
>>>>
>>>> Steve Litt
>>>> Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the
>>>> Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
>>>>      
>>>
>>> You could try
>>>
>>> "Edit" > "Paste Special" > "Plain Text" or Ctrl+Shift+V.  
>> 
>> The preceding worked. Thank you!  
>>>
>>> I never understood what "Plain Text" does not among other things it
>>> should keep the line breaks. I guess keeping line-breaks should be
>>> the default...  
>> 
>> It's ridiculous that it's not the default, you're right.
>> 
>> Thanks also to Norman Dunbar who suggested the same things.
>> 
>> Thanks also to Hartmut Hasse and Stephan Witt for their suggestions,
>> which I didn't try for lack of time once the Shift+Ctrl+v worked.
>> 
>> I spent 2 hours trying to find a method last night, before figuring
>> I'd be better off asking the list. Thanks for your suggestions!
>> 
>> SteveT  
>
>Sorry to hear that you wasted so much time. 

Thanks Daniel. I'm not sorry: It's adventures like this that keep me on
my toes. Also, I don't ask on the list until I've done significant
research.

> Others seem to have been 
>there before as well:
>
>https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8026

Until somebody gets around to "fixing" it, which at this point would
mess up those used to the current behavior, it could be treated as a
documentation problem.

It would be interesting to put it on a page titled "The Top 20
Unexpected Behaviors in LyX". That page could be prominently linked to
by many other pages.

I'm so used to LyX that I long ago forgot the other 19 :-).

SteveT

Steve Litt 
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful
Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques


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