On Sunday 20 September 2009 09:10:15 Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Afief Halumi ha scritto:
> > Personally I think the best way is to implement both the external and > > the simple embedded editor. > > There are so many editors out there, that it sounds me crazy to invent > yet another one..., and the requests for feature enhancements of a (too) > simple editor would quickly overcrowd the mailing lists and tickets. Not only that, as a LyX user I see a cost to every added line of code -- one more place for bugs to hide, and not necessarily bugs affecting only the feature the code implements. IIRC this thread started with someone using LyX to take notes in class. IMHO LyX is a dead-bang wrong tool for that -- they should be using VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). VimOutliner sports much faster input speed, has simple ways to invoke existing graphic editors, and it's easy to make VimOutliner to LyX scripts so the final product prints nicely (although personally I'd rather use an outline than a text to study for an exam). > Just a simple button that creates an empty drawing copying a template > from a folder (and opening an external editor on it) seems really the > right way to go, it would solve your particular problem, it would leave > you with the complete freedom to pick any already existing editor that > you like, or just write a new one from scratch, if you prefer. Agreed. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
