Any comments on the following proposal?
I propose an LFUN to allow the lyx file to be edited or processed as
text without having to leave the LyX GUI. This could be essentially
the same as a "export, edit, import", but with an automatically
selected temporary file rather than dialogs requesting a file to
import. LyX 1.5.0 should reopen the LyX file at the previous screen
position.
Examples of use
edit-as-text # Edit current lyx file using default text editor
edit-as-text kwrite $$f #Edit the current lyx file with kwrite
edit-as-text mathreplace.py $$f "e" "\epsilon"
#Use a hypothetical python script to replace all occurrences of e
I would like to be able to construct GUII dialog boxes from within an
LFUN command-sequence or script so that I can create a "math replace"
dialog box without having to modify the lyx binary. Is this possible?
Pseudo-code: edit-as-text($1, $2, ....)
Disable buffer->compressed
$$f = TMP_FILE
Save_As $$f
exec $*
If (valid_LyX_File ($$f))
Import $$f
If was_compressed
Enable buffer->compressed
Return
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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
