Christopher Reeve wrote:
Yes, I guess it is sort of in line with Firefox. Only with Firefox you
have literally a new window where you can have a new set of tabs. What
LyX is actually doing is cloning the current window, rather than
creating a new one which no other software I know is able to do.
Right. But this will change in 1.6 (look at the rationale for the change
in the wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16)
Until now I have been happy if an editor has the ability to reload a
document without scrolling back to the top so that I can accomplish
the same thing.
LyX supports this when session handling is enabled.
Perhaps replacing the name with "Clone Window" at its existing place
would be more intuitive. A new idea, why not have a new key word...
Alternatively as you say a Window menu could be added and the buffers
currently listed under View put there together with something again
like "Clone Window". I don't know how much you are involved with the
development and would like to suggest that?
I am behind the multiview feature so I guess I can say that I am quite
involved with the development :-)
There is a definite advantage in having the buffers in a new window as
opposed to a new tab since it is sometimes useful to look at two parts
of a file side by side. I hope that won't change in LyX 1.6 :)
No, only one Buffer per opened document is allowed and LyX 1.6 won't
change that. But LyX 1.6 will be more flexible WRT tabs.
Abdel.
PS: please try to keep discussion on list so that others may benefit
from the discussion.
