On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Jacob Barandes <jacob.baran...@gmail.com> wrote: > My LyX documents often have a lot of supporting documents written in plain > text: Text classes, layout files, BibTeX database files, and sometimes > exported TeX files that I need to edit before compiling. It would be really > helpful if I could open these plain-text documents as tabs in LyX, maybe > from the standard Open File dialog -- the resulting buffer window could just > use the fixed-width font with multiple space characters allowed, and with > most of the fancy LyX features grayed-out. > > One could even imagine linking the Document Settings dialogue and the BibTeX > box to these documents to make it quicker to open them, in the same way that > included child documents can be quickly opened by clicking Edit Included > File. > Best would of course be to simply use your favourite text editor, since LyX could never become as good as existing text editing solutions.
However I understand the interest in your request. You may want to append it to this bug [1] or better start a new one and link it to [1] (additionally to your comments, simply paste the [1] link into your new report). Regards Liviu [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4343#comment:7
