On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? :-) >
Mac users addicted to Emacs must be a very rare breed indeed... :) >> 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. > Or have the tab text colored green (as Geany does it), or have the '(ro)' flag appended to the file name (just like we have * for modified files). Liviu > Cheers, > > Rainer > >> >> Liviu >> >> >> >>> Scott > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982 -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
