On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 07:11:34PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >| Sometimes you want to edit to same document in two places. However now > >| we have this multiple window feature, it should not be possible > >| anymore to start multiple LyX instances. Can someone take a look at > >| this? > > > >Why? > > It does not make sense to allow multiple instances when each instance > can also have multiple windows. There is no way to tell which window > belongs to which instance and therefore you can easily loose data by > saving the wrong version of a document.
There are many good reasons. For one: if one instance crashes I have still the others active. For two: You can't implement it properly. For three: Multiple 'big' windows per application are bad per se, so if you don't use them, you won't run into the problem you mentioned. Even Microsoft changed its attitude here. Andre'
