Enrico Forestieri writes:
But try moving only *one* step left! Then you get the cursor in a weird position. Typing/inserting anything there will not extend the overbrace, but it *will* steal the text over the overbrace and use it as an exponent.This behavior may be confusing, but it is correct IMHO.
It is not, see the comments to the bugreport: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2264 regards Uwe