On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:39:02PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > We have a filesystem... > > Filesystems are shared between computers... > > Computer have users... > > Users run LyX... > > LyX loads the same file... > > LyX can set a write lock on open files. > > > It is not a requirement, and why are you talking about synchronizing > > documents? We only want to avoid having separate instances of LyX > > editing the same file at the same time. > > There are indeed two options: > > 1) Display an error message when the file is already opened by another > LyX process. It will be impossible to know which windows have the data > of the document (they all look the same independent of the process). > 2) Use a single process by default so users will automatically get a new > view with the right contents. > > Option 2 is definitely more user-friendly.
Maybe. What happens if I load the same document and then do "Save as"? -- Enrico
