Dear LyX developers Would it be a good idea to allow users to edit ERT insets with an external editor? I am thinking of something similar to: 1. Have a "Edit with external editor" entry to the ERT inset context menu 2. When activated, LyX would export the current contents of the ERT inset to a temporary file, and open it with a (pre-defined) text editor 3. When the user finishes editing the ERT code externally, saves the temporary file and closes the editor, LyX automatically imports the contents of the file in the ERT inset (if feasible) or the user manually activates a "Refresh inset" context-menu entry
Such a feature should be useful to users that make heavy use of LaTeX code in their documents. Personally I would use it for editing R code in Sweave documents: when the code gets too complex, it is unbearable to edit it in the ERT insets (no syntax highlighting, matching braces, easy indentation, etc.). What do you think? Regards Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
