On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Matt Brennan writes > As I recal, in v.1.1, you were able to create a new file by typing its > name in the File->Open... popup. Now in v. 1.2 this is no longer > possible. Hopefully, it should be easy to carry this feature forward > to v.1.2.1
I never used v.1.1 but my prefered method to create a new document is "lyx newdoc.lyx &" lyx will ask me, whether I really want to create a new document. The old v.1.1.6 will also ask me whether I want to create a new document, when I open a nonexistent document. The new v.1.2.0 refuses to do so. John Levon wants to remove the preferences option "File->New asks for name" He argues about things like "New..." or "New". IMHO "New..." without a dialog box is a bug, consider "Print..." for example. Please let John remove this preference option. You could introduce an option "assume user knows what he is doing" instead, which will cause lyx to create a new document without questions, whenever appropriate. Or you could just assume the user knows what he is doing, without an explicit option:) Thomas
