Joining newlines in paste (was: Pasting latex in a lyx file)

[Ricardo Berlasso]

El jue, 27 jul 2023 a las 18:15, Pavel Sanda (<sanda at lyx.org>) escribió:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:38:32PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:15:56AM +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> > > On 2021-04-19 14:47 , Christoph Schmitz wrote:
> > > >> Am 19.04.2021 um 14:43 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
> > > >>
> > > >> On 10/4/21 16:07, Mario D wrote:
> > > >>> Paul,
> > > >>> Ctrl+Shift+V works just fine for me, thanks!
> > > >>> My fault, and I beg your pardon for this, for not having tried the
> > > >>> relative option in "Edit -> Paste Special" : I just tried the
> "Paste
> > > >>> from LaTeX", which doesn't work in my case (I am pasting tikz
> > > >>> figures, so @rich: I was referring to the second option).  Thank
> you
> > > >>> everybody.  :)
> > > >>
> > > >> Actually, I am wondering whether preserving newlines should be the
> > > >> default.  I don't think one can expect that the default paste
> command
> > > >> changes the format that way.  Instead the "special" option should be
> > > >> paste with removing newlines, I think.
> > > >> --
> > > >> Daniel
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > I want to second this proposal!
> > > >
> > > > I do not know how much work it would be to create a new setting,
> which
> > > > would allow users to use whatever method they prefer.  If I have to
> > > > chose between the two options, Daniel's proposal is my preference.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > Me three :-)-O
> >
> > I also get confused by this and I think new LyX users are especially
> confused.
> > I also vote for considering a change of the default behavior.
>
> Dear all,
>
> this is one of my last items on the TODO list for the 2.4 release.
>
> Bunch of people expressed their opinion that our default for paste
> operation
> should preserve newlines. I do not have strong opinion but agree that in
> my
> experience I have to go to Paste Special sub menu quite often to preserve
> the newlines.
>
> Before looking what would need change, is there reasonable unanimous
> agreement
> that this should be the default or are there folks who prefer current
> behaviour
> which joins the lines by default?
>

>From my experience I think most people nowadays expect that a normal paste
preserve new lines, and I'm one of those peoples ;)

Regards,
Ricardo


>
> Pavel
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