On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > 25/10/2013 10:13, Scott Kostyshak: > >>> ... except that, for a Mac user, doing that requires to find the lyx >>> binary. >>> From the top of my head, it is at >>> /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX/lyx >> >> >> Thanks for the correction. Why doesn't the PATH environment variable >> take care of this? > > > Because Mac applications are not supposed to be run from the command line. > If I want to open a lyx file from the command line, I do "open myfile.lyx". > > OSX programs are of two kinds: the usual unixy commands, and the OSX-type, > where each application is actually a folder containing the binary and all > its resources. This is great because it allows to install an application by > drag and drop. By default, the Finder hides this and the application folder > looks like a plain executable on which one can double-click to launch LyX.
Ah, I see. Thank you for the explanation. I can see the advantage to that kind of organization. Scott
