On Tuesday 14 May 2002 12:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bj�nnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:21:31PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > >> And besides the space argument, it also makes it harder to understand > >> the lyx file by a human (and by a computer program). > | > | Not exactly. It might even get easier for humans to change it to some > | non-default setting if they see that there is a "default" value. > | > | Andre' > | > | PS: Did I mention lately that I am really annoyed by .lyx/preferences, > | since I run into excatly the same problem there? What is > > but you are not supposed to read preferences at all. > > | # > | # PRINTER SECTION ################################### > | # > | > | > | # > | # EXPORT SECTION #################################### > | # > | > | supposed to tell me? That I could tweak something there? > | Maybe something concerning my printer settings? Very nice. > | But what? > | > | Compare this to things like .muttrc or httpd.config . > > those are supposed to be read by humans.
The old $HOME/.lyx/lyxrc contained the entire contents of the lyxrc class used within LyX. This meant that it was hard to update as the user updated his version of LyX because some of the switches became redundant. Allan made the design decision, therefore, to only store variables in $HOME/preferences that differed to the global /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults file. I never understood why he wanted the SECTION comments. Angus
