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


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