On 5-6-2011 16:23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > It would appear that on Jun 5, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: > >> 2) pop up vs sidebar: I think this was probably the solution to the >> issue >> that the old pop up wasn't smart enough not to hide the hi-lighted word >> and >> it's immediate context when it opened. And I'll admit that as much as I >> totally loath all sidebars «I like my entire window width to always be >> reserved for the primary text window of anything I'm >> editing/reading...» >> Even a pop-up side bar is a better idea than blocking the view of the >> word's context... Or at least it would be if: >> >> >> You can freely relocate the side-bar to your wishes. >> >> WARNING: LyX seems to crash often when you do. > > Well if it wouldn't make it crash... I might prefer it took up some of my > vertical screen space (fewer lines per page) rather than taking up some of > my horizontal space (fewer words per line) But Not so much as to be worth > frequent crashes...
You can safely try it... if it succeeds, don't touch it again ;). > > Besides relocating it isn't the problem. I just want the keyboard shortcuts > to work right and especially to be able to dismiss the durned thing with the > keyboard, when I'm done spellchecking... Crtl+Shift+F should hide the pane again. Just like pressing Alt-x twice. Vincent
