Dear Lyx Developors,
I have improved the match autocorrect for lyx to support autocorrect sequences
with more than 2 characters, for example if the following line is in the
autocorrect file:
-- > \rightarrow\rightarrow
Typing --> will then autocorect to →→
Previously the first and last columns of the autocorrect file were restricted
to having 2 elements.I havn't updated the autocorrect file as I'm not sure what autocorrects you'd want to be standard (ideas of the top of my head include ==> to ⟹ and /== to ≢) I also added a button in the preferences window (in Editing → Input Completion) to reload the autocorrect file, in case you modify it whilst LyX is running. I have attached my git patch if you want to incorporate this feature into LyX. I also wanted to get Ctrl+Z to undo the autocorrect (but not the character that triggered it), for example you would type --> it would get replaced by →→ you press Ctrl+Z it replaces the arrows with '-->' However I was unable to get the undo working. In Correction::correct, I tried the following lines of code: cur.insert(c); // insert, verbatim, write the character that trigered the autocorrection cur.recordUndo(); // save the current state on the undo stack... cur.backspace(true); // delete the character we just inserted ... // do the actual autocorrection Obviously recordUndo does not do what I want it to do, namely save the state of the cursor so that when Ctrl+Z is pressed, it will revert to the save state. If anyone can help me get this working it would be greatley apreciated! I'm also considiring making a similar autocorrect feature in text mode, so you don't have to enter math mode to wright symbols, it could also be used for example to correct words like "naive" to "naïve". Let me know if this sounds like something you'd like Lyx to have. — Isaac
0001-Make-math-autocorrrect-work-with-more-than-2-chars.patch
Description: 0001-Make-math-autocorrrect-work-with-more-than-2-chars.patch
