What does tools=>reconfigure actually do?

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 12/17/21 22:33, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Exactly what is the difference between performing Tools=>Reconfigure
> within the LyX IDE environment, and performing
> /usr/local/share/lyx/configure.py at the command prompt? The former
> makes LyX aware of new environments I've put in the layout file, the
> latter for some reason does not.

I believe you need to run that from your user directory. Otherwise, it 
dumps the new files in the current directory---I think. Possibly there 
are command line variables that affect this, too.

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