On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Alfredo Braunstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Continuing with a series of semi-infuriating navigation and selection
> issues.
>
> When starting a selection inside an inset (e.g. footnote) and extending to
> the outside with shift-arrow keys, the selection correctly includes the
> inset atomically. However, then it is impossible to re-enter the inset while
> selecting, so exiting is irreversible.
> This can be highly frustrating when editing e.g. complex formulae; a small
> mistake and you exit the math inset and have to restart the selection from
> scratch.
> This works correctly *inside* mathed (you can reenter the inset where the
> anchor is), so this behaviour is what the user would expect also in texted.
> When selecting with the mouse, everything's fine, i.e. you can reenter the
> inset.
>
> A proposed fix is in attachment. Seems suspiciously simple... I'm worried of
> course that it may introduce other issues (although from a quick test I
> didn't see any). Could not test with tables because of #9291.
>
> A/

This is great! I have also been frustrated by this. Thank you for the
patch. It worked well for me in limited testing.

I think your bug report might be a duplicate of
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2346

Best,

Scott

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