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 > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * > http://twitter.com/stevelitt > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > >
