On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:45:54AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > So, let's have a poll:
> >
> > 1) Leave things as they are (need -f to overwrite)
> > 2) The main file should always be overwritten
> > 3) If no -f switch is given, use preferences settings for overwriting
>
> as i said i accept both 2 or 3 but will strongly opose to 1 since it not only
> changes the behaviour but also make impossible for anybody to reuse old
> scripts
> without revisiting each of them.
>
> since its pretty clear that you are strongly against 2 and me against 1 i
> propose 3 so we can stop the flamewar.
A fourth option could be using an env var, say LYX_EXPORT_OVERWRITE, with
possible values {all,main,none}. This would disentangle the GUI export from
the command line export.
--
Enrico
