I wouldn't sell yourselves short -- LyX is a great editor. In particular, being able to change around the UI and set keyboard shortcuts to customized command sequences would be very useful for plain text-editing. But beyond that, being able to edit all my documents in-house, in LyX, rather than having a separate text-editing program open, would make things more efficient.
In the meantime, I'll file this as a bug report, and link to [1]. Thanks! Jacob On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
