On 26/06/12 18:02, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:52:16 +0200, Liviu Andronic said:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> My Problem: I would like to avoid that I accidentally change something in 
>>> the other 
>>> documents and save it.
>>> 
>> Have been there..
>> 
>> 
>>> Is it at the moment possible to make a tab as "read-only" or, if not, could 
>>> this be easily
>>>  be implemented? I consider this a useful feature for cases like mine at 
>>> the moment.
>>> 
>> Bug #6692 ( http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6692 ) deals with it.
>> 
>> I proposed to include a 'Documents > Disable Editing' menu entry that would 
>> mark a document 
>> as read-only for the given LyX session. You can easily re-enable editing via 
>> the same menu 
>> item.
>> 
>> The bug was resolved as 'wontfix' because of lack of interest for that 
>> feature. For the 
>> record, I still think that this feature is very useful and I would (again) 
>> propose to include
>> it in base LyX. (For example, LibreOffice has this feature via a 'Edit File' 
>> toggle button.)
> 
> I never even knew LyX had tabs. I'll be using tabs now.

Something new to learn every day...
Maybe it is time to include a "Tip of the day" box on startup (obviously with 
the option to opt
out...).

Rainer

> 
> I like the idea of a read-only tab via Documents->Disable Editing, but then 
> again, I'm lousy at
> C++, know nothing about Qt-4, and therefore am unlikely to help with the 
> addition.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
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