Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> writes: > 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... :)
I don't think so - I am surprised how many are there actually when you look in the mailing lists of emacs, org-mode or ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics). I see a Mac as a hybrid: on the one side, you have the GUI which works perfectly (in contrast to windows...) and *requires* not much tinkering to make it work nearly perfect, while on the other side you can use easily all the Linux software (see e.g. the homebrew project http://brew.sh for the terminal / console software or LyX ...) - under the hood, OSX is not much different then Linux. So I have the best from both worlds, and probably the best hardware in the world. > > >>> 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). Yup - just something very visible. Rainer > > Liviu > > >> Cheers, >> >> Rainer >> >>> >>> Liviu >>> >>> >>> >>>> Scott >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >> PGP: 0x0F52F982 -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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