Path to extending Lyx to a full featured Jupyter-like IDE

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:05:58PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/10/20 9:24 PM, Allen Barker wrote:
> > It would be nice to have an option to have the LFUN just return the
> > filename rather than running an editor process on the file.
> > Sometimes users might want to edit the inset text and sometimes you
> > might want to process the text with your already-running program
> > (Lyx Notebook uses Lyx server pipes).
> 
> There must be some reasonable way to do that. Can't be too hard.

I'm not suggesting the following as a solution, but perhaps it can serve
as a workaround: it would be easy to specify a command called
"editor-wrapper" that checks if the editor is running and if so uses
whatever mechanism that editor uses to open a file in a running instance
of the program; and if it is not running it starts the program as usual.

On a separate note, I don't know if it would be useful for your use case
but another feature that would be useful for the case of the knitr
module would be the possibility to open *all* knitr chunks in a separate
file. The chunks could be separated by comments, and that's how LyX
would know how to import edits back to which insets. Currently it's
necessary to go to File > Export > R, do debugging there, then port the
fix back to the .lyx file. I'm not sure how complicated this feature
would be, but I log it here just in case.

Scott
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