Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Stephan Witt
to consider and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you quick answer to arbitrary questions

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote: Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Walter van Holst
On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you quick answer to arbitrary questions. Proposing a filename is not such an

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Diego Queiroz
maybe I'm a bit old fashioned (born in 1943 ;-). So I do not have this terrible need to do everyzhing the fastest way possible. I'm young (born in the 80's) and I confess I'm neurotic about automatization (much over the normal). Sorry if I am too boring sometimes. I enjoy to make the computer

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/11 11:36, Walter van Holst wrote: On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/14/2011 05:03 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: To be clear, I don't think that LyX will ever care to provide such a trivial option in the Prefs. (I hope it won't!) See the other thread on how there are too many options already! Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sam Lewis stroboscopicallyconflu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Stephan Witt
to consider and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you quick answer to arbitrary questions

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote: Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Walter van Holst
On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you quick answer to arbitrary questions. Proposing a filename is not such an

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Diego Queiroz
maybe I'm a bit old fashioned (born in 1943 ;-). So I do not have this terrible need to do everyzhing the fastest way possible. I'm young (born in the 80's) and I confess I'm neurotic about automatization (much over the normal). Sorry if I am too boring sometimes. I enjoy to make the computer

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/11 11:36, Walter van Holst wrote: On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content. Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/14/2011 05:03 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: To be clear, I don't think that LyX will ever care to provide such a trivial option in the Prefs. (I hope it won't!) See the other thread on how there are too many options already! Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sam Lewis wrote: >> IMO, we need to improve the functionality of >> LyX, and not block good ideas. > > Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on > functionality. But it does not mean that

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Stephan Witt
uot;Chapter-5", "Appendix", etc). I dunno. > There are lots of things to consider and this "basic requested feature" could > be improved to a "most wanted feature". Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search your files, e. g. by content.

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Diego Queiroz wrote: > Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? > As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything > should be fine. Believe on me. :-) > And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Walter van Holst
On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: > Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search > your files, e. g. by content. > Normally it is supported by indexing services, so it should give you > quick answer to > arbitrary questions. Proposing a filename is not

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Diego Queiroz
> maybe I'm a bit old fashioned (born in 1943 ;-). So I do not have this terrible need to do everyzhing the fastest way possible. I'm young (born in the 80's) and I confess I'm neurotic about automatization (much over the normal). Sorry if I am too boring sometimes. I enjoy to make the computer

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/11 11:36, Walter van Holst wrote: > On Thu, April 14, 2011 10:43, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Nowadays modern desktop systems are providing the capability to search >> your files, e. g. by content. >> Normally it is supported by indexing services,

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/14/2011 05:03 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: To be clear, I don't think that LyX will ever care to provide such a trivial option in the Prefs. (I hope it won't!) See the other thread on how there are too many options already! Richard

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote: Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in all of them and hit Save all. With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name. That sort of makes sense if you are

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Lewis
IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Diego Queiroz
and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. You're

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote: Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in all of them and hit Save all. With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name. That sort of makes sense if you are

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Lewis
IMO, we need to improve the functionality of LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Diego Queiroz
and this basic requested feature could be improved to a most wanted feature. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. You're

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-13, Diego Queiroz wrote: > Just as an stupid example, suppose I create 10 new files, type something in > all of them and hit "Save all". > With this feature, I will be able to determine a good name for each file > (based on the first sentence, or anything else) without navigate to each

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
>> Hey LyX developers! >> >> As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the >> \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file >> should be saved as. >> In principle, I could live with proposing the title as the file name. That sort of makes

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Lewis
> IMO, we need to improve the functionality of > LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-13 Thread Diego Queiroz
e are lots of things to consider and this "basic requested feature" could be improved to a "most wanted feature". > Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-12 Thread Diego Queiroz
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose the filename. An option to disable this feature is welcome (for

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-12 Thread Diego Queiroz
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose the filename. An option to disable this feature is welcome (for

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-12 Thread Diego Queiroz
Hellmut, this behavior is not a rule, right? As a programmer I assure you: once things are correctly handled, everything should be fine. Believe on me. :-) And I repeat, it is just a guess for a name to the file, LyX won't impose the filename. An option to disable this feature is welcome (for

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony: Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. Do you agree? Thanks, Although you addressed the

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony: Hey LyX developers! As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file should be saved as. Do you agree? Thanks, Although you addressed the

Re: A basic requested feature

2011-04-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Am 08.04.2011 18:37, schrieb Inon Sharony: > Hey LyX developers! > > As in MS (boo!) Office, when saving a new file, whatever appears in the > \title section should automatically be guessed as the name that the file > should be saved as. > > Do you agree? > > Thanks, > Although you addressed