On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:39:22PM +0000, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote: > Hello! > > At least as of LyX 2.3.0 LyX displays a "Reload file" prompt, if it detects > that the LyX file has been changed externally, e.g. by Dropbox, external > version control, or user scripts. As a great bonus, LyX even checks if the > contents (not only the modification time) has changed. > > However, when changing a lot of files at once (e.g. checking out an earlier > version of a document with many child-documents from Git), each file has a > separate prompt, and even files that were previously opened only invisibly > in the background are suddenly visible. The best work-around I could > idemtify, was to close and restart LyX having enabled the setting *“Tools → > Preferences → Look & Feel → Document Handling → Load opened files from last > session”.* > > Is it possible to make LyX silently automatically reload the files, if no > changes were made inside LyX since the last save?
Makes sense. Do you know how any other program behaves in similar situations? We try to follow convention when we can. Scott
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