> What about doing nothing? Who should modify the .lyx file behind my > back? The only one could be me, and I know I did it, as I think I am > not in that senile state, still.
After you did it, you will have to close and open, or use file->revert (which is disabled when your buffer is clean) to reload the file, and you may wrongly save your file and lose all your external changes... I agree that this is not a pressing issue though. Bo