Hi everybody. I do not know where to post a feature request, so I send it to this list -- hope that's ok.
I use LyX every day at work (doing my PhD), and I am really really happy with it! There is one thing I am missing though, since I collaborate a lot with people that I cannot convince to use LyX: It would be awesome, if I could edit .tex files directly with LyX, instead of going through an import-export cycle every time. First of all, import/export changes the preamble, which might be strange to the guy who wrote it. And second, we usually work with svn, and there is no safe way of merging the export with other people's commit. At the moment, I do "svn up", then I import, then I edit, then I export somewhere else, then I copy the tex-body only and paste it to the original document, and finally I do an "svn up/commit" to merge with other changes. To repeat this many times a day can become quite tedious... So in short: Please add a feature to edit .tex files directly. If possible, even files that only contain a section (without preamble whatsoever) to be included elsewhere. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work, Yann PS.: If this is not the place to post feature requests, please point me to where I should have put it.
