On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >> Sure, but why can't a native Windows LyX exe take advantage of Cygwin > >tools to > >> view stuff? It's not something I've ever done (never bothered to install > > No. This is not the case. When an associated viewer exist, the > detected viewers will *not* be used. This is why the detection is not > needed at all.
The day my associations are lost (and this is not unusual on Windows whose registry seems to be a so fragile thing) I will not be alone in the cold if configure.py can detect by itself some tools... > You case is only valid when the format is not associated with any > viewer under native windows, and configure.py finds a viewer in > cygwin. See above ;-) -- Enrico
