Re: Backspacing at the start of an inset occupying a paragraph

[Richard Heck]

On 06/07/2014 01:43 AM, aparsloe wrote:
Placing the cursor at the start of an inset and pressing the backspace 
key destroys the inset and makes its content part of the surrounding 
text. However, if the inset is the *only* item in a paragraph 
environment (list, Quotation, etc.) then not only is the inset 
destroyed but so too is the environment, which becomes a standard 
paragraph. Writing [note](note contents) to denote a note inset,

1. [note](blah blah blah)
    (a) sub-item
    (b) another sub-item

displays in the pdf as

1. (a) sub-item
    (b) another sub-item

which may what is desired, but if you feel the "blah blah blah" should 
be made visible in the pdf and put the cursor before the first "blah" 
and press backspace, the result is

blah blah blah  <-- a standard paragraph
1. sub-item
    (a) another sub-item

What I expected was

1. blah blah blah
    (a) sub-item
    (b) another sub-item

This seems to apply to all insets (I've also tried footnotes, margin 
notes, minipages, ERT), not just notes.

I think the reason this happens is that the layout in effect in the 
inset becomes the layout in effect in the paragraph, if the inset is the 
only thing there. I'm not sure exactly why it works that way, though.

Richard