Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Hal Kierstead]

> On Feb 13, 2019, at 2:43 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  wrote:
> 
> Le 13/02/2019 à 19:49, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
>>> Do we know how to handle that?
>> We have other key combinations, right, like Alt-M followed by a? But I'm
>> pretty clueless about all that.
> 
> Alt-M is a prefix, it requires something afterwards. But Esc is bound to a 
> function in itself.
> 
> JMarc
An old request from scientific word people (that I would like to see 
implemented) is to be able to enter math mode by hitting the space bar twice. 
If you could make hitting the escape key twice do something special, would it 
also work for the space bar?

Hal

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 19:49, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :

Do we know how to handle that?


We have other key combinations, right, like Alt-M followed by a? But I'm
pretty clueless about all that.


Alt-M is a prefix, it requires something afterwards. But Esc is bound to 
a function in itself.


JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/13/19 1:01 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 13/02/2019 à 18:31, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
>>> We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it
>>> seems a bit complicated to me.
>>
>> What about Esc-Esc, quickly?
>
> Do we know how to handle that?

We have other key combinations, right, like Alt-M followed by a? But I'm
pretty clueless about all that.

Riki

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 18:31, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :

We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it
seems a bit complicated to me.


What about Esc-Esc, quickly?


Do we know how to handle that?

JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/13/19 5:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 13/02/2019 à 11:45, avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il a écrit :
>> Thanks for your replies, Baris and Jean-Marc. Indeed, I had meant
>> what JMarc wrote.
>>
>> How does it continue from this point? Should I open a
>> "feature-request" Trac ticket, or will you, as a LyX developer, do
>> it? Apologies for not knowing what the custom is.
>
> Please open a ticket. Making Esc do what you want would not be
> difficult, we just have to decide whether it is the good solution.
> Maybe it is.
>
> We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it
> seems a bit complicated to me.

What about Esc-Esc, quickly?

Riki

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 12:50, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 
mailto:lasgout...@lyx.org>> wrote:
Please open a ticket. Making Esc do what you want would not be
difficult, we just have to decide whether it is the good solution. Maybe
it is.

We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it seems
a bit complicated to me.

JMarc


Done.
Thanks to everybody who replied.

Ami

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 11:45, avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il a écrit :
Thanks for your replies, Baris and Jean-Marc. Indeed, I had meant what 
JMarc wrote.


How does it continue from this point? Should I open a "feature-request" 
Trac ticket, or will you, as a LyX developer, do it? Apologies for not 
knowing what the custom is.


Please open a ticket. Making Esc do what you want would not be 
difficult, we just have to decide whether it is the good solution. Maybe 
it is.


We could also have a special key sequence like "Alt-M Esc", but it seems 
a bit complicated to me.


JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 12:14, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 
mailto:lasgout...@lyx.org>> wrote:
Le 13/02/2019 à 11:10, Baris Erkus a écrit :
> One way I found very useful, which does not do exactly what you want, is
> to use backspace to erase the LaTeX code entered. You need to move the
> cursor current position tough. Then, you can re-enter the new code.

The question is not "how to transform the inset to LaTeX code?", but
rather "how to put quickly the cursor outside of the math inset to
continue typing?".

JMarc


Thanks for your replies, Baris and Jean-Marc. Indeed, I had meant what JMarc 
wrote.

How does it continue from this point? Should I open a "feature-request" Trac 
ticket, or will you, as a LyX developer, do it? Apologies for not knowing what 
the custom is.

Ami

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 11:10, Baris Erkus a écrit :
One way I found very useful, which does not do exactly what you want, is 
to use backspace to erase the LaTeX code entered. You need to move the 
cursor current position tough. Then, you can re-enter the new code.


The question is not "how to transform the inset to LaTeX code?", but 
rather "how to put quickly the cursor outside of the math inset to 
continue typing?".


JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 11:07, Baris Erkus a écrit :
Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode 
(inline/displayed formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or 
Space keys, but several presses may be required to have the cursor 
leave the formula completely. I'm looking for a way to do it in one 
hit. If this is not currently implemented, I think it could be a very 
useful addition to LyX.


Using LyX 2.3.2.

Thanks in advance,
Ami


Please see lyx ticket: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7968

This was the ticket I opened, may be you meant this: 
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11206


It is a different issue AFAICS.

JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Baris Erkus]

On 13-Feb-19 11:29 AM, 
avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il wrote:
Hello,

First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to take this 
opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great project.

Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed 
formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several presses 
may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. I'm looking 
for a way to do it in one hit. If this is not currently implemented, I think it 
could be a very useful addition to LyX.

Using LyX 2.3.2.

Thanks in advance,
Ami

One way I found very useful, which does not do exactly what you want, is to use 
backspace to erase the LaTeX code entered. You need to move the cursor current 
position tough. Then, you can re-enter the new code.

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Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Baris Erkus]

On 13-Feb-19 11:29 AM, 
avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il wrote:
Hello,

First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to take this 
opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great project.

Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed 
formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several presses 
may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. I'm looking 
for a way to do it in one hit. If this is not currently implemented, I think it 
could be a very useful addition to LyX.

Using LyX 2.3.2.

Thanks in advance,
Ami

Please see lyx ticket: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7968

This was the ticket I opened, may be you meant this: 
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11206

BE

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Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 11:08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 
mailto:lasgout...@lyx.org>> wrote:
We could decide that Esc does that. I am not sure though how to give it
meaningful semantics in general (for different insets). It is not good
to have one behavior for math and another one for, say, tables.

JMarc

Thanks for your reply, Jean-Marc. I agree with you that changing the behavior 
of Esc isn't desirable. So perhaps some key combination would do? As long as 
one can change it by defining a different shortcut, the default isn't that 
important. If this can be implemented it would be great.

Ami

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 10:54, Kornel Benko 
mailto:kor...@lyx.org>> wrote:
What about a shortcut for 'paragraph-down'? (Though it does not work for inline 
formula)

Thanks for your reply, Kornel. Unfortunately, paragraph-down doesn't always 
work, also in displayed formulas; for instance, when the previous/next math 
object in the formula has a subscript.

Ami

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 13/02/2019 à 09:29, avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il a écrit :

Hello,

First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to 
take this opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great 
project.


Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed 
formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several 
presses may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. 
I'm looking for a way to do it in one hit. If this is not currently 
implemented, I think it could be a very useful addition to LyX.


Using LyX 2.3.2.


We could decide that Esc does that. I am not sure though how to give it 
meaningful semantics in general (for different insets). It is not good 
to have one behavior for math and another one for, say, tables.


JMarc

Re: Leaving math mode immediately

[Kornel Benko]

Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2019 08:29:40 CET schrieb avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il 
:
> Hello,
> 
> First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to take 
> this opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great project.
> 
> Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed 
> formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several 
> presses may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. I'm 
> looking for a way to do it in one hit. If this is not currently implemented, 
> I think it could be a very useful addition to LyX.
> 
> Using LyX 2.3.2.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ami
> 


What about a shortcut for 'paragraph-down'? (Though it does not work for inline 
formula)

Kornel

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Leaving math mode immediately

[avisel...@univ.haifa.ac.il]

Hello,

First, I have been using LyX for quite a few years, and would like to take this 
opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in this great project.

Now for my question. Is there a way to leave math mode (inline/displayed 
formulas) "immediately"? One can use the Esc or Space keys, but several presses 
may be required to have the cursor leave the formula completely. I'm looking 
for a way to do it in one hit. If this is not currently implemented, I think it 
could be a very useful addition to LyX.

Using LyX 2.3.2.

Thanks in advance,
Ami