All - I find the pop-up windows for Insert-Citation and Insert-Cross-Reference quite annoying. It is nice to have a list of choices, and to be able to use the mouse to choose among them, but this should not be required. Most of the time I already know what I want. It would be really nice if I could just type the tex command \cite{E} or \ref{d} or \eqref{w}, or something similar.
Is there is already a way to do something similar? Embedding tex does not seem a good alternative. Currently it does not seem possible to make a shortcut for Insert-Cross-Reference from within LyX. I am using a Mac, and made a menu shortcut in OSX. This works fine, except that the first time I use I must open it from the menu by hand. Is this an OSX flaw or a LyX flaw? Thanks for any help, Hal