* only use selection of current cell when starting a macro (fixes http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4566 for macros)

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@23670 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

src/CutAndPaste.cpp

@@ -434,6 +434,28 @@ docstring grabAndEraseSelection(Cursor & cur)
 }
 
 
+bool reduceSelectionToOneCell(Cursor & cur)
+{
+	if (!cur.selection() || !cur.inMathed())
+		return false;
+
+	CursorSlice i1 = cur.selBegin();
+	CursorSlice i2 = cur.selEnd();
+	if (!i1.inset().asInsetMath())
+		return false;
+
+	// the easy case: do nothing if only one cell is selected
+	if (i1.idx() == i2.idx())
+		return true;
+	
+	cur.top().pos() = 0;
+	cur.resetAnchor();
+	cur.top().pos() = cur.top().lastpos();
+	
+	return true;
+}
+
+
 void switchBetweenClasses(DocumentClass const * const oldone, 
 		DocumentClass const * const newone, InsetText & in, ErrorList & errorlist)
 {
@@ -932,8 +954,10 @@ docstring grabSelection(Cursor const & cur)
 	if (!cur.selection())
 		return docstring();
 
-	// FIXME: What is wrong with the following?
 #if 0
+	// grab selection by glueing multiple cells together. This is not what
+	// we want because selections spanning multiple cells will get "&" and "\\"
+	// seperators.
 	ostringstream os;
 	for (DocIterator dit = cur.selectionBegin();
 	     dit != cur.selectionEnd(); dit.forwardPos())

src/CutAndPaste.h

@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ docstring grabSelection(Cursor const & cur);
 /// Does not handle undo. Does only work if the whole selection is in mathed.
 /// Calls saveSelection.
 void eraseSelection(Cursor & cur);
+/// Reduce the selected text in mathed to only one cell. If it spans multiple
+/// cells, the cursor is moved the end of the current cell and the anchor to the
+/// start. If the selection is inside only one cell, nothing is done. Return
+/// true if the selection now does not span multiple cells anymore.
+bool reduceSelectionToOneCell(Cursor & cur);
 /// Erase the selection and return it as a string.
 /// Does not handle undo. Does only work if the whole selection is in mathed.
 docstring grabAndEraseSelection(Cursor & cur);

src/mathed/InsetMathNest.cpp

@@ -1415,8 +1415,11 @@ bool InsetMathNest::interpretChar(Cursor & cur, char_type c)
 
 	if (c == '\\') {
 		//lyxerr << "starting with macro" << endl;
-		docstring const safe = cap::grabAndEraseSelection(cur);
-		cur.insert(MathAtom(new InsetMathUnknown(from_ascii("\\"), safe, false)));
+		bool reduced = cap::reduceSelectionToOneCell(cur);
+		if (reduced || !cur.selection()) {
+			docstring const safe = cap::grabAndEraseSelection(cur);
+			cur.insert(MathAtom(new InsetMathUnknown(from_ascii("\\"), safe, false)));
+		}
 		return true;
 	}