On 2012-05-10, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> From: Paul A. Rubin [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM


>>My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and
>>use ctrl-M to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that,
>>then ctrl-M again to make it a formula once more.  That no longer works
>>(I'm not sure which version did away with it).

> I didn't know that this is how it used to work. I wonder why it was
> changed. For something similar, see workaround 1 below.

...

> Two ways to do this:

> (a) You could bind the following command-sequence to a shortcut. Then
> put your cursor in front of your long equation and run the shortcut.
> command-sequence char-forward; line-end-select ; cut; char-backward;
> paste; char-delete-forward

> (b) Or if you want to do it manually, go just inside the equation and
> do ctrl+shift+<right arrow> or ctrl+end. Both of those work for me. And
> then go outside of math and paste. It should now show up as LaTeX.

Feature request:

It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or
branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press
backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined. This would
give a consistent user experience.

Günter

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