Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| 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
>
| --
| 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";
| +
I liked the old formatting better.
--
Lgb
