At least going back to LyX 1.0, documents saved with those old versions
import fine with LyX 2.0. I remember having used LyX prior to version 1.0
but I can't find any older files right now. In any case, I think it's more
common to open an old file, than to open a newer file saved in an older
format. And in that case the file ends with .lyx and has no version number
in the file name.
As LyX can handle older formats fine, I don't see a reason for having
.X.lyx as an extension. Just using .lyx would be fine IMHO. In any case,
"*.lyx" matches "*.X.lyx" as well when using Unix-style glob semantics, so
one pattern to rule them all is better.
Richard Heck wrote:
On 03/28/2014 10:49 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
If the user wants to open a file, there is a list with filters reading:
LyX Documents (*.lyx)
LyX-1.3.x Documents (*.lyx13)
LyX-1.4.x Documents (*.lyx14)
LyX-1.5.x Documents (*.lyx15)
LyX-1.6.x Documents (*.lyx16)
This might be rather confusing for users that switch to LyX 2.1 from LyX
2.0 and want to open their LyX 2.0 files.
I take it this is because we used to export to previous versions with those
odd extensions, which we no longer do. We have not, in fact, done so since
1.6.x. Even 1.6.x documents exported from 2.0.x end in ".16.lyx", not in
".lyx16", so the last one is even misleading.
I'd suggest simply eliminating all those other filters in 2.1.0.
Richard
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