On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:05:58PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 3/10/20 9:24 PM, Allen Barker wrote: > > It would be nice to have an option to have the LFUN just return the > > filename rather than running an editor process on the file. > > Sometimes users might want to edit the inset text and sometimes you > > might want to process the text with your already-running program > > (Lyx Notebook uses Lyx server pipes). > > There must be some reasonable way to do that. Can't be too hard.
I'm not suggesting the following as a solution, but perhaps it can serve as a workaround: it would be easy to specify a command called "editor-wrapper" that checks if the editor is running and if so uses whatever mechanism that editor uses to open a file in a running instance of the program; and if it is not running it starts the program as usual. On a separate note, I don't know if it would be useful for your use case but another feature that would be useful for the case of the knitr module would be the possibility to open *all* knitr chunks in a separate file. The chunks could be separated by comments, and that's how LyX would know how to import edits back to which insets. Currently it's necessary to go to File > Export > R, do debugging there, then port the fix back to the .lyx file. I'm not sure how complicated this feature would be, but I log it here just in case. Scott
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