On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:33:58AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > I am not sure this is really needed.
>
> My original idea was to embed an arbitrary renderer for
> InsetExternal. Things like syntax-highlighted code snippets, but then
> I thought, why limit it to just rendering?
Would be nice, but not solve my problem...
> > One of the features I sorely miss is the :'<,'>!foo feature of
> > vim that pipes the selection through some external filter (like
> > 'sort') and replaces the selection with the output of the filter.
> >
> > This would already help much.
> >
> > During the last week I spend more time on one of my bigger .lyx
> > files with vim than with LyX... no, I am not joking.
> >
> > In theory, such a feature should be simple to add, in practice it
> > probably isn't. The only format LyX can read and write is .lyx, and
> > the probability to crash LyX's reading with a broken filter's output
> > is almost 1...
>
> try {
> ...
> } catch(...) {
> }
>
> ???
Would be fine with me, however Lars recently said we don't use
exceptions...
>
> ... but I can't see why you couldn't embed vim. This is for
> InsetExternal and maybe for InsetERT, writing and reading from a temp
> file.
I do not want to embed it right now (even if that would be nice). I want
to use some of its (and shell) features on an arbitrary region of text,
including the main text, including formulas etc.
Not just for InsetERT.
Andre'
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