I have created a trac-ticket a while back ( https://www.lyx.org/trac/ ticket/10997 ) and now added the discussion from here to the ticket.
2018-04-14 23:42 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 09:52:32PM +0000, Guillaume Munch wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 02:12:36PM +0000, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote: > > > > > > > A direct comparison is probably difficult, as LyX draws especially > much > > > > information from background files (macro definitions, TOC, ...). > > > > > > Thanks for that great research, Klaus, and all of those details! I'm > > > CC'ing Guillaume. He has worked on this feature so might have an > opinion > > > on this thread. We might want to eventually open a trac ticket for this > > > so that it does not get lost in the mail archives. > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > Hello, it is a good idea to automatically reload background files. This > is > > not so simple, though, because the change notification can happen at > random > > times and it is not clear that the code is ready for this. I have an idea > > to make it work, but this will need to wait that I am back from holidays. > > It is best to open a ticket for now. > > Klaus, did you open a trac ticket for this? It would be great if you > could do that and summarize the conversation. > > Thanks, > > Scott >