On 07/10/2016 09:53 AM, Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 10/07/2016 14:48, Richard Heck a écrit : >> On 07/10/2016 05:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >>> >>> I ask in near total ignorance, but "my ears pricked up" when I read >>> "EXPORT_in_THREAD" and "It's set in the code, but can be manually >>> unset by people who don't want the risks of background export, >>> threading, etc." Is this a way to tackle >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8346 on the problems threaded export >>> poses for command-sequences? >> >> Not really, unless you just want to disable background export entirely. >> The switch has to be set compile time. > > This is not essential, it is trivial to make it run-time (but is it > really worth an interface?).
Check the bug Andrew mentioned for one reason it would be good to have this. Basically, if you do something like: command-sequence buffer-export someformat; buffer-reload in an attempt to process something externally, it fails, because the reload happens before the export completes. I.e., it happens almost instantly. Richard