On 2017-01-25, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --]
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:11:12PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:00:02PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: >> > On 2017-01-24, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:14:39PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: >> > >> > >> Below is an incomplete patch (see FIXME). >> > >> Could someone with more C++ knowledge complete and test, please? >> > >> > > This would be a step forward. However, I am more radical and would like >> > > that the automatic transformation of -- and --- to \textendash and >> > > \textemdash be removed. If I enter -- I want to get --, otherwise >> > > strange things and obscure bugs can happen. For example: >> > > 1) start a new document and input "--" and you get \textendash >> > > 2) now enter another "-" and you get \textemdash >> > > 3) now enter another "-" and everything gets replaced by "-" >> > >> > This could be changed to gets replaced by "----" ... > This seems to have been done on purpose. But I don't understand why. The idea seems to be to cycle between hyphen, en-, and em-dash with subsequent keypresses. This makes sense under the assumption, that in normal text you will never need an em-dash followed by a hyphen, an en-dash, or another em-dash. > The attached patch corrects this glitch and I am going to commit it > because I really don't see any rationale behind this behavior. With your patch, would pressing the [-]-Key 4 times become EM DASH + HYPHEN or ----? Günter
