Hi Bas, On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:52:15PM +0100, Bas Spitters wrote: > Any news on applying these patches? I did not find them in svn yet.
I am just back from abroad; should be able to find some time next week... Best wishes, Joris > BTW: Is there any documentation on extending the latex export, there are some > bugs I would like to fix, but it seems that I am missing something obvious. > > Bas > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 16:44:56 Norbert Nemec wrote: > > Just for curiosity: Has anybody out there looked at these patches at > > all? I'm a bit surprised about the silence over this issue that I > > believe to be rather central to the every day user experience. > > > > Greetings, > > Norbert > > > > Norbert Nemec wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > following the bugfix two days ago, I have now finally sat down and > > > tried to clean out the annoyingly non-standard behavior of TeXmacs in > > > terms of selection handling and cut-and-paste. Resulting are the three > > > attached patches that handle mostly independent issues. Each patch has > > > an explanation included in the header. > > > > > > To begin with: I am used to the Windows/KDE/Gnome standard behavior > > > which is very different from that of Emacs. I believe the patches in > > > their current form will work in Emacs mode as well, but I would ask > > > some of the true Emacs users to try these patches. > > > > > > The first patch should be pretty much invisible if you don't use > > > X11-style mouse-select-and-middle-button-paste. If you do use this, > > > you should find the new behavior identical to that in other common > > > editors. If you have xclipboard, klipper or any similar clipboard > > > manager running, please check how it might interfere with the > > > inter-program cut-and-paste. > > > > > > The second patch makes selections generally non-persistent (i.e. text > > > is unselected as soon as cursor is moved). This is the standard set by > > > Windows and adopted by freedesktop.org (i.e. KDE, Gnome, etc.). If > > > anybody has a good reason for supporting persistent selections, please > > > bring it forward. > > > > > > The third patch does away with the annoying habit of TeXmacs > > > overwriting the clipboard when you press <delete> on a selection. I > > > know that some Emacs users prefer to have their <delete> key bound to > > > perform a <cut> operation. If anybody out there thinks this kind of > > > behavior should be configurable (or even default in Emacs mode), could > > > you please contact me, so we could try to figure out at which place I > > > should put a switch. > > > > > > Please, test these patches thoroughly and give your feedback. This is > > > something that will affect every user every day, so it should be > > > polished. > > > > > > Greeting, > > > Norbert > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
