On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:27:58PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:

> Am Montag, 3. April 2006 23:40 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
> > Attached a patch against the configure script that comes together with 
> > Angus' SVN snapshot build for Windows (because I couldn't find the 
> > original file in the SVN repository).
> 
> If you want this to go in please send a diff against configure.py (1.5) 
> and configure.m4 (1.4).
> 
> > It adds some (Win) text editors with syntax highlighting that could be 
> > used to view/edit LaTeX files.
> 
> Viewers for latex are left out on purpose. I believe that more people 
> would be confused by View->LaTeX than would find it useful. After all, 
> you use LyX to avoid LaTeX :-)
> Of course that does not mean that windows text editors should not be 
> configured, just not for LaTeX.

I see another problem with this patch. I think that it is Windows
centric, as DraftDVI is a Windows only thing. Then, the test for
an executable file is replaced with a test for a readable file.
I think that this fact can be dangerous on *nix.

That said, this patch would also be useful for cygwin (apart the test
for a readable file rather than an executable one, of course ;-))

I think that it can be done in configure.m4 after a proper test
for the system target type. I'll have a look at it if nobody beats me.

-- 
Enrico

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