On 10/25/2011 03:30 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote:
> On 10/25/11 at 01:04pm, Rob Oakes wrote:
>>> No, sorry. Shortcuts are global. I can see where it would be cool to be
>>> able to do this, but it seems complicated to me. LyX would have to
>>> reload the shortcuts every time you switched buffers.
>> Good to know. And, now that you mention it, it would be complex thing to
>> implement and probably not worth the trouble.
>>
> Just curious: would it be easier to have alternative sets of (global)
> shortcuts? Then one could have specialised shortcut sets for particular tasks
> or types of document, and a "standard" shortcut set. This shouldn't be too
> difficult, right?
>
You can do this simply by having different user directories that you use
at different times. So, e.g., on Linux you could set up another user
directory as ~/.lyx-special/, and then invoke LyX via:
lyx -userdir ~/.lyx-special/
when you want the other shortcuts.
Richard
