Re: [Texmacs-dev] Activation/deactivation seriously broken?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

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). It is true, however, that we might add a simple keystroke
for re-activation.

> 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.

Best wishes, Joris