On 1/18/19 8:29 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > I guess my point now is that experienced user is not expecting > emergency file to be renamed and stored, so some hint should be provided.
How about a dialog after that's done: "Emergency file saved as whatever.lyx"? >>> What I would find as a real improvement in the emergency case workflow >>> is to offer comparison of the emergency and stored file. >>> I found myself doing this manually bunch of times after emergency file >>> was created, so new button for that would be handy and not so much work >>> I believe. >> Sure, we could certainly do that. >> >> Personally, I have not found the comparison stuff very useful. It seems >> to proceed character by character, which can be lead to bizarre diffs. >> I've occasionally thought about converting it (or adding an option) so >> that it went word by word. That would be more informative, I think. > Agreed, I use comparison just for getting indication which part of document > changed, the character based diff makes the comparison feature somewhat > useless due to the bizarre diffs you mentioned. We even have bug discussing > this issue, unf Vincent never got to fix that and it might not be trivial. I keep thinking this can't be that hard. I'll have a look. Riki