On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> Simple solution: Add a message to the beginning of .lyx/preferences
> saying something like "edit at your own risk".
Oh, I just noticed that it contains this text already:
# This file is written by LyX, if you want to make your own
# modifications you should do them from inside LyX and save
The text looks a bit 'cut off' though at the end... some snooping reveals
it's because of formatting of the source code in src/lyxrc.C - silly...
Anyway, going with Lars' dictatorial DO NOT EDIT, how about the
attached patch? (the message is slightly different, and I'm not 100%
sure that putting a '\' at the end of a line is standard).
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Index: lyxrc.C
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/lyx/lyx-devel/src/lyxrc.C,v
retrieving revision 1.162
diff -u -r1.162 lyxrc.C
--- lyxrc.C 2003/12/14 16:33:53 1.162
+++ lyxrc.C 2004/01/09 15:26:44
@@ -1067,19 +1067,21 @@
void LyXRC::output(ostream & os) const
{
- os << "### This file is part of\n"
- << "### ========================================================\n"
- << "### LyX, The Document Processor\n"
- << "###\n"
- << "### Copyright 1995 Matthias Ettrich\n"
- << "### Copyright 1995-2001 The LyX Team.\n"
- << "###\n"
- << "### ========================================================\n"
- << "\n"
- << "# This file is written by LyX, if you want to make your own\n"
- << "# modifications you should do them from inside LyX and save\n"
- << "\n";
-
+ os << "\
+### This file is part of\n\
+### ==================================================================\n\
+### LyX, The Document Processor\n\
+###\n\
+### Copyright 1995 Matthias Ettrich\n\
+### Copyright 1995-2001 The LyX Team.\n\
+###\n\
+### ==================================================================\n\
+\n\
+# This file contains user preferences. It is read during startup\n\
+# and overwritten when 'Save' is selected in the 'preferences dialog'.\n\
+# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - changes should me made from within Lyx.\n\
+\n";
+
// Why the switch you might ask. It is a trick to ensure that all
// the elements in the LyXRCTags enum is handled. As you can see
// there are no breaks at all. So it is just a huge fall-through.
