On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 06/10/2015 04:13 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: >>> >>>> Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't >>>> understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such >>>> features. >>> >>> I love LyX, because I can input math from the keyboard, without click and >>> search in menus and dragging around - just using familiar LaTeX syntax. >>> >>> The same would apply for many smaller edits (font changes, package >>> insertions, ...): if the source view were edible, I could do many of >>> these changes fast and per keyboard without searching in menus or the >>> shortkey-list. >>> >> Maybe some sort of math-like tab-activated completion could be >> implemented, for commands that LyX supports natively... There'd be >> less scope for getting it wrong in such a set-up. >> >> So something along the lines of: >> - activate math-like completion as in "\" >> - propose a list of completion possibilities given an exclusive list >> of commands that LyX understands and supports natively >> - run tex2lyx on the input when user signals they're done >> - if something didn't go to plan, spit out ERT >> >> But I expect this wouldn't be a trivial implementation to get >> everything right and cover all potential complications... > > > The idea of having an ERT-like box that supported completion, syntax > highlighting, etc, > is one I've had before. But then we're talking about integrating something > like a LaTeX > edtior into LyX, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, from LyX's point > of view, > especially given that, like most FOSS projects, we are very short of > programming time. > And, as Benedict says, if one really wants to do that kind of thing, then at > least a very > good alternative is an Input inset, which one can then edit with a real > editor (Kile, in
> my case). I wonder if just having the option of opening an ERT itself in an > external > editor would help? > As it happens, this is the subject of: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7404 Georg even provided a patch, and I suspect it requires not much programming to polish up that patch for inclusion. > I suppose it might be an option to run tex2lyx on > whatever we get, > and replace the ERT inset with the result, in so far as that is possible. > I.e., we'd have > a sort of generic ERT-->LyX routine. > I think this would be a nice touch, indeed. Regards, Liviu > I *think* that some parts of what is > required here > already exist in the Advanced F&R machinery. > > Richard > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
