Beamer "duplicate frame"

[Scott Kostyshak]

I often find it useful to duplicate a frame and go from there rather
than starting from new. Using the mouse to select a section and copy,
then position, then paste, often does not work for me. Somehow I mess
it up because I often position the cursor incorrectly.

I'm now using the following command sequence and it's working pretty
well (in limited testing). I click at the beginning of the "Frame"
layout (just before the frame title), and run it:

command-sequence section-select; copy; char-forward; paste

Would anyone find a "section-duplicate" LFUN useful? I have trouble
thinking of non-Beamer uses, so my current thought is that it should
not be included, but I wanted to check here to see what others
thought.

Scott

[Liviu Andronic]

Post by Scott Kostyshak
I often find it useful to duplicate a frame and go from there rather
than starting from new. Using the mouse to select a section and copy,
then position, then paste, often does not work for me. Somehow I mess
it up because I often position the cursor incorrectly.
I'm now using the following command sequence and it's working pretty
well (in limited testing). I click at the beginning of the "Frame"
command-sequence section-select; copy; char-forward; paste
Would anyone find a "section-duplicate" LFUN useful?

Yes, absolutely. I have encountered this same issue in LyX support fro
Beamer, even before the 2.1 overhaul. A straightforward UI-way to
duplicate a frame would go a long way to help (especially novice)
users when using Beamer in LyX.

Liviu

Post by Scott Kostyshak
I have trouble
thinking of non-Beamer uses, so my current thought is that it should
not be included, but I wanted to check here to see what others
thought.
Scott

[Scott Kostyshak]

Post by Liviu Andronic

Post by Scott Kostyshak
I often find it useful to duplicate a frame and go from there rather
than starting from new. Using the mouse to select a section and copy,
then position, then paste, often does not work for me. Somehow I mess
it up because I often position the cursor incorrectly.
I'm now using the following command sequence and it's working pretty
well (in limited testing). I click at the beginning of the "Frame"
command-sequence section-select; copy; char-forward; paste
Would anyone find a "section-duplicate" LFUN useful?

Yes, absolutely. I have encountered this same issue in LyX support fro
Beamer, even before the 2.1 overhaul. A straightforward UI-way to
duplicate a frame would go a long way to help (especially novice)
users when using Beamer in LyX.

Jürgen,

I would be interested in your thoughts on whether you think this would
be useful. And if so, do you have any advice on implementation?

Note that I don't have any time now and wouldn't be able to implement
this for a while.

Scott

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

JÃŒrgen,
I would be interested in your thoughts on whether you think this would
be useful. And if so, do you have any advice on implementation?
Note that I don't have any time now and wouldn't be able to implement
this for a while.

This sounds like a handy feature. Note that you do not need to implement a
new lfun for this. We have the (still unused) "call" lfun which seems quite
the right approach to deal with macros like this one.

JÃŒrgen

Scott

[Scott Kostyshak]

Post by Jürgen Spitzmüller

Post by Scott Kostyshak
Jürgen,
I would be interested in your thoughts on whether you think this would
be useful. And if so, do you have any advice on implementation?
Note that I don't have any time now and wouldn't be able to implement
this for a while.

This sounds like a handy feature. Note that you do not need to implement a
new lfun for this. We have the (still unused) "call" lfun which seems quite
the right approach to deal with macros like this one.

Interesting. I didn't know about LFUN_CALL. I will look into it (in a
few months).

Thanks,

Scott