Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Fix for bug/feature request i#8288

On 2 December 2010 07:23, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 14:40 +1100, Mattias Johnsson wrote:
> > Patch ensures that after doing "replace all" the cursor is left at
> > original position, rather than moved to the position of the last
> > replacement.
>
>        Wow - cool; that was one of the MS compete bugs AFAIR that they use to
> demonstrate OO.o's general lame-ness ;-)
>
>        Impressive; what do you plan next ? :-)[2] we should really be piling
> up some new Easy Hacks it seems to me, there are fewer bite-sized tasks
> there than there used to be.
>
>        Thanks,
>
>                Michael.
>
> [2] - I think a really fun and chewy task - that needs more API
> documentation for this piece, is the undo/redo 'easy hack' in
> starmath :-) if you're interested.

Yep, I was thinking of having a go at this. I'm a physicist, and all
my colleagues use LaTeX for document preparation (well, the theorists,
anyway, the experimentalists often use Word, but then they don't need
many equations :-P), or Powerpoint or Keynote for lecture / conference
slides, because the equation creation and rendering in OO.o is
painful.

So yes, improving that would be a subject close to my heart :-)

Cheers,
Mattias