Liviu Andronic wrote: > Sure, but packagers may or may not take care of this (or, for that > matter, even know of the need to take care of this). While LyX already > creates OS specific folders, like ~/.lyx. So why couldn't LyX by > default create a ~/.lyx/backups that power users could disable if they > so wisheth, but those unaware and caught with similar data-loss bugs > would have their files back? Are there good reasons against this?
Well, the path needs to be set in lyxrc, so I do not see an alternative to using lyxrc.dist for OS specific settings. Jürgen
