Useful to know how many branch insets are used?

[Scott Kostyshak]

[moving from lyx-users to lyx-devel]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users wrote:
> Le 11/02/2022 à 20:48, Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users a écrit :
> > However, I wonder if it would be useful more generally to display in
> > Document > Settings > Branches how many times each branch is used (i.e.,
> > how many insets of each branch there are). It would be a column, along
> > with the current columns "Activated", "Color", and "Filename Suffix".
> > For example, one could sort the branches by clicking on the column
> > header.
> > 
> > Would others find this useful? I'm guessing it's just me and maybe one
> > or two others, in which case it might be best not to propose this
> > feature on lyx-devel and just take the easy approach of writing the
> > Python script. Nonetheless I thought I would ask for feedback since
> > branches are such a flexible tool I'm not sure how others use them.
> 
> While I am not sure I would use it, it is pretty easy to implement in the
> updateBuffer machinery. I can give guidance if needed.

Good to know. There was only one response on lyx-users, which makes me
think there's not much interest. (I could share a Python script with the
one user who mentioned support).

I'll think about this more.

Scott
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