>>>>> "Joao" == Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Joao> Normal clients, though, will be spawned by lyx childs (eg. xdvi
Joao> as with "inverse dvi search") so the alternative in this case
Joao> points to set an environment variable LYXTMP with equal to
Joao> /tmp/lyx_tmpdir8814Rhtgtj. Lyxclient reads the environment and
Joao> then knows how to find the pipes.

Or the name of the pipe could be written in .lyx/pipename

Joao> So what do you think resurrecting PutEnv()? I could then work in
Joao> this migration of lyxpipes to tmpdir and write a compliant
Joao> client. Further migration to local sockets could be made in a
Joao> next step, when inverse search would be already working.

I am not sure it is needed, actually. In particular, it will not help
if the client has not been spawned by LyX itself.

JMarc

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