On 12/2/20 10:46 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I just remembered this feature exists and it is fun to test it. I have a
few questions/comments:
1. After I exit my text editor, should LyX detect that the process
exited and automatically reload and unlock the inset in LyX?
Currently I need to manually go to "End Editing Externally".
I don't know any way to do this automatically. Probably there is one,
but inter-process stuff is not something I really understand.
2. It might be nice to show visually that the inset is "locked". Perhaps
we could grey it out somehow, and/or put a "lock" symbol on the inset
label.
Yes, that's an excellent idea!
3. There are problems when the inset has arguments. For example, open
the file 'lib/examples/Modules/Rnw_%28knitr%29.lyx'. Edit something
in the chunk inset, save, and click on "End Editing Externally".
Notice that the "show-off" is now outside of the argument (it was
originally in the argument "options"). Should we omit arguments when
giving the inset contents to the text editor?
I'll have a look at this case.
4. I expected "Edit externally" to show up in the context menu when
clicking on the inset label (which currently has "close inset" and
"dissolve inset"). Would it make sense to additionally add it there?
Certainly.
Regardless of the above comments, I was able to use the feature and find
it useful. Thanks for the work on it! (I think it was Riki?).
The original work was done by Georg. I just adapted it.
Riki
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