On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:28:16PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 15/04/2019 à 16:08, Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > > 
> > > OK, it was just a suggestion. More important would be to have new bindings
> > > that use the feature. I guess one candidate is
> > > --        >       \longrightarrow
> > 
> > Another interesting feature made possible by this patch is the
> > following one:
> > 
> > (                 *    \bigl(
> > \bigl(            *    \Bigl(
> > \Bigl(            *    \biggl(
> > \biggl(           *    \Biggl(
> > \Biggl(           *    (
> > 
> > This will let you type ( and then, by repeteadly hitting *, cycle
> > through all fixed sizes of the delimiter. Of course, there should
> > be a matching definition for ) and all other delimiters.
> 
> 
> Indeed. It would be nice to use <space> for that, like to extend a space.

Spaces are troublesome, I would avoid having to represent them in the
autocorrect file. Then, a space is already used for deactivating the
autocorrection feature.

> I wonder though: isn't this already possible with current code?

I don't think so.

> I find the use of space a bit inconsistent in general in mathed. And I would
> often prefer them to do nothing than exit the current cell.

I find it is fine for exiting super or subscripts, or for completing
the name of a macro.

-- 
Enrico

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