Bo Peng wrote: >> Open file by extension is a very common practice >> under windows. Under linux/unix, we also only need to keep track of >> command names, not their pathes. > > BTW, it is very un-windows when someone has to set > c:\progra~1\acrobat\reader\.... to let lyx view pdf files. > > Bo
Sure. The Windows way would be to define a viewer in lyxrc.defaults as \viewer pdf "open $$i" because the user will already have associated a .pdf extension with something like AcroRd32.exe. -- Angus