I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances when I have been comparing documents with shared authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.
Thanks, Gordon On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called > something like "Disable editing" or "Read only", which would make it > so you could not edit the current document? > > The idea would be that sometimes you just want to read a .lyx file > without being able to edit it. > > The disadvantage is adding another option to an already cluttered > menu. This feature can always be activated on the command buffer (alt > + x) with buffer-toggle-read-only. > > Note that this is http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692. > > Best, > > Scott >
