[Denemo-devel] feedback on some new features

[Bric]

some of this is belated, perhaps...

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Spill-over:  mixed feelings.  Or, practically speaking, it's good 
sometimes, and sometimes worse than the alternative:

spill-over is good when you actually WANT a tied spill-over.  But - 
correct me if I am wrong - denemo doesn't let you change duration ahead 
of typing in a note, WITHOUT CHANGING THE LAST EXISTING NOTE... .  So:  
If a 4/4 measure currently already contains:  { 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4 ... } 
and you just want to add an 1/8th note, to fill the measure and NOT 
spill ... that forces the automatic spill-over situation.  Your next 
note will be a 1/4, and spill over 1/8-1/8... leaving you the extra task 
of deleting the spilled (second) 1/8, then cursoring left, over to the 
first 1/8, removing the tie, then cursoring back right... Ugh...  
tedious, compared to before, when it just placed my 1/4, highlighted the 
bar red/pink, and let me change the duration with just one key stroke.

Where is the toggle to revert to the old way?  And maybe ideally there 
should be an on-the-fly toggle, with some keystrokes.  It *IS* useful 
when you need it.

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Shortcut list: great start.  I haven't found a way to search ("Ctrl+F") 
the list, though, without copying and pasting the whole thing into 
notepad or some such.


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Deleting a note:  I actually grew to like the old way very much: 
incremental deleting - after a few persistent "delete" key strokes I was 
left with a rest with duration equal to that of the note I just 
deleted.  Further "delete" key strokes removed the rest as well. That 
was very useful and efficient, I thought.

(And, of course, I'm not talking about "cut"-ing notes/measures ("Ctrl+x"))