On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > When I export a file as PDF LyX asks me if I want to replace the existing > PDF. This is OK, but replacing should be the default and not keeping. > Moreover LyX asks me after the first question if it should continue asking. > No matter what I click in this dialog, LyX asks me the same again and again > whenever I export a file as PDF. This is extremely annoying!
Personally, I basically never "export" anymore. I just set up my viewer to automatically copy my files to ~/cached_pdfs. This has a few advantages for me: 1) It saves a button press. This saves time as I do not need to wait for the dialog to appear. Also, it means that I never fix a typo, export, Alt-TAB to my mail client, assume that LyX will have updated the file by the time I have written the email, hit send, Alt-TAB back to LyX and then get the dreaded "are you sure you want to export" dialog. 2) If I preview a pdf and I like it I know that it will be in ~/cached_pdfs. There is no need to run export again. This is nice since exporting my thesis can take a while, especially on my netbook. 3) I know there will be a recentish version of my PDF in ~/cached_pdfs, so I can quickly view my document without having to start LyX. 4) It doesn't litter my source directory with generated files. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
