Re: [Texmacs-dev] Overwriting selections

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi all,

I did the necessary. Please check whether I introduced some new bugs.

Best, --Joris


On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> Dear Norbert,
> 
> Thanks for reminding this issue to me; I put it on my TODO list.
> It may require some non trivial modifications, because we should
> be able to restore the state of the pointer and selections after 'undo',
> as pointed out in the subsequent posts to this message.
> This would actually be good anyway and useful for many other things.
> Also, insert_tree seems a bit dangerous as a place to do the cut,
> so I will need to refactor some code.
> 
> Best wishes, --Joris
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19:17PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > just updated to the latest SVN version for the first time in months. I am 
> > impressed by the progress. Great work!
> > 
> > Since the Look&Feel is currently being worked on, I would like to bring up 
> > a small issue that has been open for some time: In KDE and probably most 
> > other environments, an active selection should be automatically replaced as 
> > soon as any other content is entered. This behavior can be achieved by 
> > adding one single line:
> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > --- a/src/src/Edit/Modify/edit_text.cpp
> > +++ b/src/src/Edit/Modify/edit_text.cpp
> > @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ edit_text_rep::prepare_for_insert () {
> >  
> >  void
> >  edit_text_rep::insert_tree (tree t, path p_in_t) {
> > +  selection_cut("none");
> >    if (is_atomic (t) && (p_in_t == end (t)) &&
> >        is_atomic (subtree (et, path_up (tp))))
> >      insert (tp, t);
> > --------------------------------------
> > 
> > I have had this patch in my working repository for quite some time and have 
> > not found any unintentional side-effects. Only issue might be to make it 
> > depend properly on the L&F environment.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
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