On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:21:59PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > This breaks the "everything has an LFUN and goes through dispatch" rule > > and means further that modifying existing insets using (shock!) the > > LyX server is impossible. > > I still don't understand the big deal here. So what ?
The big deal is "modularity" and "lean interfaces". By using dispatch() only, the frontends and the core are as loosely connected to the core as possible. > This will not provide anywhere near the needed support for scriptability. Why not? Maybe I did not understand Angus' idea, but especially in connection with "LFUN_INTERPRET" this sounds as a big step towards scriptability... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)