Enable editing in preview pane for "LyX" format?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 04:53:37PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> 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.

Good points, everyone. Thank you for the feedback! Indeed I did not
think through it well, and there are not any strong use cases that I
know of.

Scott
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