I may be misunderstanding, but this is the way I see it: There are semantic differences between the two. You generally want to "export" to anything that is not a native file format. Formats that the program knows how to both read and write, without any loss of content, can be "saved as" and "opened".
If you combine "Save as" and "export" the user may decide to write a document and save it as a PDF. But since LyX cannot edit PDFs, when the user later decides to open the PDF in LyX, LyX will give error messages. It's one thing to have different native formats (to "save" to), but another to consider saving and exporting the same thing (with respect to the user). On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:43, John Levon wrote: > Is there any good reason we have both Save As and Export ? > > The format could easily be chosen in the file dialog, no ? > > regards > john
