I've only tried this for importing .tex and .csv files but whenever I import them LyX automatically saves the resulting lyx file. In some cases, this is exactly what I want to do but I was surprised because in my experience usually an import function just imports and does not automatically save. I searched but could not find any previous discussion on this.
Instead of "import" I would describe this as "convert the file (assuming an output file name) and open" although "import" does sound nicer. In any case, I could see this behavior causing problems. A few examples: 1. If a user tries to import a .tex file from a read-only directory (which seems legitimate to me) they get an (uninformative) error. 2. If they have an existing .lyx file with the same name, they will be asked if they want to overwrite that file. I think this message would confuse users that thought they were just importing a .tex file. 3. Often I want to import a .tex file from one folder and save it to a different folder. It's not much of a pain to save-as it and then delete the other one. But until now I didn't realize that I needed to delete the other one. 4. Similar to (3) I often want to import a few .tex files (usually tables) and merge them into one .lyx file. The current behavior does have some advantages. I think in most cases the user is planning on saving the .tex file with the same name. Also, it's nice if you want to convert a lot of .tex files at once and you aren't comfortable with the command line. You can just drag them on top of LyX and you're done. I could get used to this "convert and open" behavior now that I expect it, but I just wanted to mention my surprise. What I expected to happen was what happens when you create a new document. I expected to have an unsaved newfile1.lyx. Any thoughts? Thanks, Scott
