Hello LyX developers. Long time no see. I haven't kept close tabs on the External Inset discussions. But I was wondering whether it might be used to support external *text* files.
Sometimes I'm struggling incessantly over a paragraph (or two or three) of simple text -- no formatting -- and prefer to use an external editor like vim to get it just right. Couldn't an External Inset be one way of including such material, while re-rendering it regularly to update the text presented in the LyX editor? Am I understanding properly the role of the inset, w/r/t other kinds of files/data? Why not text too? More broadly, is LyX capable of calling the appropriate editing program (according to MIME conventions) by clicking on the inset presenting the external material?
