On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> 
> > This is the "minibuffer", more or less a power user tool. You can type in so
> > called lfuns like "date-insert". Have a look here for a list:
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Devel/LFUNs
> 
> Juergen,
> 
>   Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I
> do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the
> advantage of typing "LFUN_FILE_OPEN"

[That would be 'file-open'...]

> in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does the same thing.

Not everything LyX provides is accessible via keybindings and menus.
Apart from that, some things are faster typed in in the minibuffer than
typed in some dialog.

Andre'

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