On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:57:41AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > The main 'con' is that you are no longer free to use a text editor > > of your liking but have to cope with what LyX offers. > > Along those lines, how difficult would it be to embed an external app > to edit external files?
Don't know. Not easy to an extend where I can use LyX as 'vim'. emacs + preview-latex is closer in this area. > I know that the old InsetFigure used to embed > a gs process. > > I'm thinking of nothing more complex than telling this app the size > and position of the window... I am not sure this is really needed. One of the features I sorely miss is the :'<,'>!foo feature of vim that pipes the selection through some external filter (like 'sort') and replaces the selection with the output of the filter. This would already help much. During the last week I spend more time on one of my bigger .lyx files with vim than with LyX... no, I am not joking. In theory, such a feature should be simple to add, in practice it probably isn't. The only format LyX can read and write is .lyx, and the probability to crash LyX's reading with a broken filter's output is almost 1... Andre'
