My rambling about 6.1, 6.2 yesterday has nothing to do with the bug.What
caused the crash described by yesterday's traceback was the following:
in my ~/.lyx/lyxrc file I had defined a primary keymap (\kmap < «
\kmap > »), but since I put the file in /usr/share/lyx/kbd instead of
~/.lyx/kbd I somehow erased it while installing 6.2 or upgrading to 1.1.5.
If you define a primary keymap in the lyxrc file, and this keymap file does not
exist, LyX will crash on the first keyboard input it receives. This kind of
bobo is well avoided in the pulldown menus, but is circumvented by using the
lyxrc file. Which only reafirms the common belief that nothing can be made fool
proof, because fools are much too resourceful.
If I modified the source code to jump over this pitfall, how would I go about
contributing a patch? I have no idea how patches are supposed to be structured.
--
Edscott
