Unexpected behavior of the Cancel button of the Ref window.

[hair-splitter]

Environment

• TeXstudio: 4.6.2
• Qt: Qt 6.5.1
• OS: Windows 10
• TeX distribution: TeX Live 2023

Actual behavior

Do the following steps:

1. File / New
2. LaTeX / Cross References / ref
3. Cancel

TXS inserts the following at the cursor:
\ref{}

Expected behavior

Nothing happens.

[sunderme]

this is deliberate code.
I assume the author wanted to insert empty ref when desired, so this is a change request.

[octaeder]

so a solution could be:

• ok button inserts \ref with label
• a new button inserts emtpy \ref
• cancel button inserts nothing

[sunderme]

@octaeder yes, or an extra entry in the drop-down list which inserts empty \ref{}

[octaeder]

I thought that choosing an extra entry might be tricky. Obviously it should be the first entry then. And since it is a list of label names the entry should be empty. But at first it looks like you have no labels:

On the left dialog when no labels are present. No visual difference.

[sunderme]

probably better to have something like <empty> or similar

[octaeder]

PR #3240 is on the way. Same details as given in the PR:

Note: When the dialog is presented you can immediately (at least on windows)

• scroll through the list with the up/down arrow keys
• open the list with Alt+down arrow key (image to the right)
• insert \ref{} by pressing Enter or clicking OK button