On 05/30/2017 07:04 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2017-05-30 4:54 GMT+02:00 Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org > <mailto:rgh...@lyx.org>>: > > >> Another question: Should the "literal" flag default to true or > false? > >> Having it default to true would be consistent with pre-2.3 > behavior. > >> People who wanted it otherwise could set it once and then it would > >> (should) be remembered. > > The argument for setting it to false was that novices tend to > run into > > more severe problems if they enter text that is interpreted as a > > command and might not know what happens (as opposed to LaTeX > > literates). > > > > For people who are used to the current situation, there will > certainly > > a learning process. But on the other hand, the situation was not > very > > clear at all, since some dialogs were outputting verbatim texts, > some > > not, some partially. > > Having the checkbox is fine with me. I just don't want to have to keep > checking it. > > I've committed something along these lines. > > > OK. Thanks. Since this is used as a session setting, we might have the > unwanted side-effect that it is now off by default for everybody > starting LyX 2.3 with an old document.
But it was off by default, anyway, I believe, since the default for literal is false. That's how I got the non-literal insets that started this thread. Richard
