Christian Ridderström wrote:
Hi,
I've got a question about the behaviour of LyX which I'm using on
Windows (Uwe's installer), here's the use case:
* I've got a LyX file open in a LyX window.
* I click on a LyX file in my browser (Opera), and a second LyX window is
opened. Actually, I assume that I've started a new instance of LyX.
Is this behaviour what we want? (I've gotten used to other applications
opening the new document in a separate tab).
A new tab or a new window - a presentation issue if it is the same session.
New session advantages:
* If one session crash, you won't loose changes in the other document.
Of course, LyX should never crash, but there will likely always
be bugs.
* If one session is tied up in a 5-minute latex run (big book with
many external insets - or slow computer) then other sessions will
still be responsive. The busy session won't respond until latex
finishes.
Same session advantages:
* Slightly less memory used.
* Faster loading as the running instance doesn't need to start up.
* perfect copy/paste of formatted data (including mouse middle click
pasting) between documents in the same session. This at least used
to be a problem with separate sessions.
* You can make cross references between the two documents, when they are
in the same session.
Helge Hafting
