On 02/22/2018 04:00 PM, Paul A Rubin wrote: > > > > On 02/22/2018 03:37 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> 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). > > We already have line-begin, self-insert and char-delete-forward LFUNs. > If someone were to add a "for-each-selected-line" LFUN (with a shorter > name) that would take a command or command-sequence as its argument, > block comment/uncomment could be done as a macro.
Those don't apply in the case of hte LaTeX preamble. That's just a text editing widget provided by Qt. Richard
