On 8/17/19 4:29 PM, racoon wrote: > > > On 2019-08-17 22:25, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 8/17/19 12:58 AM, Daniel wrote: >>> On 2019-08-16 21:50, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>>> On 8/16/19 3:04 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 16.08.19 18:08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>>>>> On 8/16/19 11:30 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 16.08.19 17:13, Daniel wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2019-08-16 07:18, Anders Ekberg wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 2019Aug15, at 22:16, Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 2019-08-15 07:07, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 15/08/2019 1:28 PM, Daniel wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> On 2019-08-14 20:23, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/14/19 7:35 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Me three :-)-O >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> el >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 14/08/2019 07:15, Daniel wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I just discovered the new feature to edit the preamble >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> externally. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I couldn't find where to set the editor for >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> documentation about it. On MacOS it opens XCode which asks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> me to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> install additional application or Quit. This renders the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> function >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pretty useless for me. I have set a different application >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as default >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for TeX files but LyX seems ignore this. How can I make >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LyX >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> open my >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> favorite editor? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Tools > Preferences > File Formats > LaTeX (plain) > Editor. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Paul >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks. So, I take it, there is no documentation of this. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Next, question: how do I set a Custom editor then? I tried >>>>>>>>>>>> "/Applications/texmaker.app" but nothing happens though "open >>>>>>>>>>>> /Applications/texmaker.app" in the terminal works just fine. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Following Paul's response, I chose Custom and entered notepad++ >>>>>>>>>>> (my preferred text editor) in the adjacent window. I've >>>>>>>>>>> included >>>>>>>>>>> C:\Program Files\Notepad++ (preceded and followed by >>>>>>>>>>> semicolons) >>>>>>>>>>> in the path string at Tools > Settings > Paths. It works (at >>>>>>>>>>> least in windows). >>>>>>>>>>> Andrew >>>>>>>>>> Thanks for checking. Might be a macos bug then. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>>>> Tried to get it to work on MacOS (with BBEdit, but didn’t >>>>>>>>> succeed. >>>>>>>>> I think what I get wrong is what to put in the path (tried bot >>>>>>>>> Application and into the BBEdit package) and what to put in the >>>>>>>>> command. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Anders >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I managed to get LyX to work with the default application by just >>>>>>>> using the command "open" (without quotes) as Custom Editor. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Daniel, this is for MacOS? Could somebody describe how to do if not >>>>>>> MacOS and not Windows? Is it described somewhere? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Wolfgang >>>>>>> >>>>>> Wolfgang: You are on Linux, correct? The menu sequence I specified >>>>>> above (Tools > Preferences > File Formats > LaTeX (plain) > Editor) >>>>>> is how you do it for Linux. If your editor does not appear in the >>>>>> drop-down list, you select "Custom" and put the command to run the >>>>>> editor in the box next to the word Custom. >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks, Paul! >>>> >>>> On many platforms, xdg-open will open the file in your default editor >>>> for that type of file. We decided not to include this as an option, >>>> though, due (I think) to security concerns. >>>> >>>> Riki >>> >>> Couldn't there be a warning dialog instead as is used in many other >>> applications when opening urls or files externally? (Ideally, this >>> warning dialog would have checkbox to 'Not show the warning again.') >> >> There's discussion about all of this somewhere. See #9606, for example. >> That mostly has to do with checking URLs, so maybe all the security >> concerns already exist with what we do here. I'm not sure. In any event, >> this would be better discussed on lyx-devel. >> >> Riki > > #9606 seems pretty unrelated to me. Maybe a typo?
Sorry, #9906. Riki
