Joris van der Hoeven wrote: >On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:58:46PM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > >>Hi there, >> >>either I'm missing something obvious or the deactivation/activation of >>tags in 1.0.5.11-R2 is seriously broken: >> >>Assume, have marked up text, say <with|color|red|whatever> somewhere in >>my document. >>It used to be that I could simply set the cursor behind the text, press >><backspace> to deactivate it, edit the color to "blue" and hit <return> >>to see the effect take place. This does not seem to work any more. >> >>The best I managed to do is to mark the whole mark-up and hit "M-minus" >>to deactivate the text. However, I have no idea how to reactivate it. >> >> > >M-minus inserts a tag which can be removed using C-return (just before >the end of the tag). > This does not work for me: instead, C-return creates a tag <script-eval|>, no matter where I type it.
> It is true, however, that we might add a simple keystroke >for re-activation. > > It used to be that a simple <return> did the trick (like for new, not-yet activated tags). Why was that abolished? Why doesn't the <backspace> work any more for deactivating tags? (Don't understand me wrong: I'm not against changes, but I like to know whether they were intentional.) > > >>First: in this deactivated tag, TeXmacs seems to be in a different mode >>than in a new, not-yet activated tag. Pressing <return> does not work. >> >>Pressing "M-plus" does not reactivate the deactivated tag but simply >>inserts an empty <active*|> tag that has no visible effect. Same for the >>toolbar-button "Activate". If I mark the inactive tag before pressing >>"M-plus", I find the inactive tag enclosed by an <active*|...> tag that >>has no visible effect. >> >>If this simply is a bug, then I hope it is fixed soon. Certain >>editing-operations are currently impossible or demand a nasty >>workaround. If the behavior is intended, then I have to say that it is >>seriously confusing. >> >> > >The behaviour of the "with" tag is a bit special, because it is frequent and >most people usually don't want to manually edit the attributes. > > > In which way "special"? It is true: it used to be that "with" tags did not react to <backspace> like others did. But now, the <backspace> does not work any more in general, so where is the specialty? Ciao, Norbert _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
