Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Helge Hafting <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Den 23. mars 2015 17:57, skrev Scott Kostyshak: >>>> >>>> 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? >>>> >>> Have you tried making the file itself read-only? LyX already knows about >>> read-only files and will not allow editing then. >> >> Good point. I think the advantage of the feature being discussed at >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692 >> is to give users a user-friendly way to do it inside of LyX. >>
> Indeed. Setting a file read-only on the disk may work well enough for > Linux users, but Windows or Mac users can't be bothered with such > low-level details. Hang on - I am a Mac user, use emacs, know (and love!) the terminal, regularly edit file permissions and owners - maybe because in my heart I am a Linux person? :-) > Having a quick way to set this within LyX can be useful, and even > within the same LyX session you can set/unset this status. I completely agree - an option to set a file read-only from within LyX would be quite useful. Even Emacs can do this - and emacs users are addicted to the terminal! I even think this should not be hidden in a menu, but in the open dialog and in the tab itself, so that one can easily set it when opening a file and change (and see the actual status!) without having to go into a menu. It would be quite nice, if read-only buffers would have e.g. a red border, independent of why they are read-only. Cheers, Rainer > > Liviu > > > >> Scott -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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