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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:10:13PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > 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"? > > That's completely fine with me as well. > > > >>> 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. > > This would be great to have fixed and it might get even much faster if word > based. My impressioon from the cursory look at the code some years back > was that it's not straightforward change... > > Also just switching to words without touching the comparison algorithm itself > might produce similar problems we have now, see Vincent's comments on #6889. > > Pavel
