On 02/22/2018 03:05 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Gómez Martínez > <dangome...@gmail.com <mailto:dangome...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have large sections of customized TeX code in the LaTeX preamble > of some LyX templates I've created over time. I would like to know > if there's a way to quickly toggle between commented and > uncommented line for a given selection of lines (say, with a > keyboard shortcut) > > > I don't know of a way to do this. > > > , and in case there's not a quick way to do this, I would like to > ask the developers if they can include this feature in > Settings->Document->LaTeX Preamble and in the TeX code environment > > > I would be happy to see this also. > > > (the one you have with Ctrl+L), it would also be great if a > message of how to do so (toggle comment lines keyboard shortcut) > could be included in the Settings->Document->LaTeX Preamble > sub-window. > > I'm sure I've read somewhere that LyX tries to the highest extent > to be so complete that users don't usually have to put TeX or > Preamble code lines, but as we users have some really customized > and variable needs > > > The approach I use is to write a separate, external, preamble.tex file > that I then put alongside the .lyx file and in LyX's premable I issue > "\input{preamble.tex}". Then, I can (un)comment the contained > behavior in one line. Naturally, one can use multiple preamble files > to segregate behaviors. Using this approach also allows multiple > documents to share a common preamble. Further, by symbolically > linking the .tex file, an update in one instance updates behaviors > globally.
If one's preamble-related needs have become this sophisticated, then I'd recommend this approach. I don't think we really want to implement a full-fledged LaTeX editor inside LyX. What might be more plausible, and something I think we have considered, is to have some way to launch an external text editor and then read back whatever's provided, kind of like we do with graphics (say). Richard
