On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:39:33PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Edwin Leuven wrote: > >Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>we need a good infrastructure for embedding one or more workareas > >>into a dialog. > > > >could you explain briefly why? > > For advance search&replace. The idea would be that you can search for a > chunk of text containing insets (including math or charstyle) and could > replace it with another text containing insets. > > Use case 1: I want to replace all occurrence of "xxx" with "\emph{xxx}". > Use case 2: I want to replace all occurrence of "a_{b}" with "a_{b^2}" > > Clearer?
Sounds like firing up vi on the .lyx file in an xterm is the fastest way to solve this ;-) Andre'