On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:31, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > I think that it's fair to say that use of lyxrc is deprecated and support
for
> > it will probably be removed eventually. The idea is to use the GUI
> > Preferences popup instead, the output of which is saved to a new file
> > "preferences".
>
> Thanks, I hadn't realised that. Perhaps it would be worth displaying a
> warning to this effect if you have a lyxrc file and no preferences file,
> when LyX starts?
In this case, LyX will read your lyxrc file. Should you make any changes
using the Preferences dialog, then these changes will be stored in a new file
preferences. Thereafter, only preferences will be read. There are some issues
being reported with the preferences file; namely:
1. make change and save.
2. make change and save.
change 1 is lost. Haven't verified this, but this sort of thing is the main
reason we created a new file rather than overwrite all your hard-earned
choices in lyxrc. You can always go back to lyxrc by deleting the preferences
file.
> Also, in that case, the preferences should count as being modified, so that
> you can save them immediately (I just toggled an option twice to get the
> same result, but that's not quite as obvious).
This is a known bug.
Angus
