On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am thinking of using Lyx with sweave, but there is one thing I am > wondering about whioch would be important for using it for longer > projects: is there a possibility to define an external editor (e.g. > amacs with ESS or gedit) for code blocks, so that I would have syntax > highlighting et al. when editing code blocks in the external editor? > Yup, I hit this wall, too, once [1]. At that time there were two ideas floating: - allow external editing ERT insets with a random text editor - integrate with QScintilla
Both are probably worth of a bug report and perhaps of a GSoC project. Otherwise we're only missing someone interested in implementing this. Cheers Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg159200.html
