On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:52:16 +0200, Liviu Andronic said: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My Problem: I would like to avoid that I accidentally change > > something in the other documents and save it. > > > Have been there.. > > > > Is it at the moment possible to make a tab as "read-only" or, if > > not, could this be easily be implemented? I consider this a useful > > feature for cases like mine at the moment. > > > Bug #6692 ( http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692 ) deals with it. > > I proposed to include a 'Documents > Disable Editing' menu entry that > would mark a document as read-only for the given LyX session. You can > easily re-enable editing via the same menu item. > > The bug was resolved as 'wontfix' because of lack of interest for that > feature. For the record, I still think that this feature is very > useful and I would (again) propose to include it in base LyX. (For > example, LibreOffice has this feature via a 'Edit File' toggle > button.)
I never even knew LyX had tabs. I'll be using tabs now. I like the idea of a read-only tab via Documents->Disable Editing, but then again, I'm lousy at C++, know nothing about Qt-4, and therefore am unlikely to help with the addition. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
