>>>>> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Georg> Actually this is still wrong. The order in 1.4 is:

Georg> - Parse all known LyX arguments in the LyX singleton and store
Georg> them - Let the frontend parse and remove all arguments that it
Georg> knows - Complain for all remaining arguments that are not
Georg> filenames in the LyX singleton

Georg> The difference to the procedure above is that it is possible to
Georg> override frontend options in LyX.

Yes.

>>> In particular, if the toolkit has arguments like "-c 3", the "3"
>>> will be read as a file name...

Georg> But not if the toolkit eats all known arguments first. Or do I
Georg> miss something?

No, I was trying to point out the difficulty of interpreting our own
arguments without touching the toolkit's ones.

>> Which is bad. Would you accept a change WRT the argument interface?

Georg> No. I start LyX (and other programs) with filenames many times
Georg> a day, and always adding -f for LyX would be inconsistent and
Georg> too much work.

I do not want this -f either. In general, we shall not introduce such
limitations for reason that are just our internal organization of
code (like the issue of mathed color corners).

JMarc

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