Enable editing in preview pane for "LyX" format?

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Wed Dec 15 21:53:37 UTC 2021


On 12/15/21 12:05, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 10:13:33AM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> We have the option to show the LyX format in the preview window. We also
>> have the functionality to reload a LyX document (e.g., if it is changed
>> externally). Would it be reasonable to allow editing of the LyX format
>> in the preview window?
>>
>> It seems feasible to implement, but I think the main question is whether
>> it would actually be useful and I'm not sure.
> How are you going to guard against crashes when reloading wrong data?

Yes, this looks dangerous to me, and I'm not sure how useful it would 
be, for the reasons Thibaut gave.


Riki




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