Addressing #10481.
This patch adds the new 'needauth' option for converters launching
external programs that are capable of running arbitrary code on behalf
of the user. These converters won't be run unless the user gives explicit
authorization, which is asked on-demand when the converter is about to
be run (question is not asked if the file is cached and calling the
converter is not needed).
The user prompt has a 3rd button so that he/she's not prompted again
for (any converter over) the same document (identified through
buffer->absFileName()).
Two preference options are added:
lyxrc.use_converter_needauth_forbidden disables any converter with
the 'needauth' option, which is meant to force user to an explicit
action via the preferences pane, before being able to use advanced
converters that can potentially bring security threats;
lyxrc.use_converter_needauth enables prompting the user for 'needauth'
converters, or bypasses the check if not enabled, falling back to the
previous behavior.
So, the first option is for maximum security, the second is for
maximum usability.
The field prettyname can accept Unicode and therefore must be parsed into a
docstring.
Little simplification of the code on the way.
* For other fields, either a validator should be set to prevent non-ascii input
in the preferences, or they should be transformed into docstring too.
Before this commit, in the paths preferences tab if you put a
relative path, LyX would convert it behind the scenes to an absolute
path by evaluating the relative path with respect to the working
directory of the LyX instance where the preference change is taking
place. This seems confusing because (1) it is done behind the scenes
(after the preferences dialog is closed) and (2) if the user chooses
to enter a relative path, the safest thing to do is to preserve it
as a relative path, instead of making the assumption that the user
intended for it to be expanded to an absolute path.
An explanation of how relative paths are handled is given at the
bottom of the paths tab. Note that the height/width of the
preferences window is not changed as a result of adding this
explanatory comment because the height of the preferences dialog is
already stretched by other tabs.
This commit improves consistency in the sense that the behavior of
LyX is now the same when a relative path is specified in the
preferences dialog as when it is manually specified in the
preferences file. Before, if the preferences file were manually
edited and a relative path were inserted, the next time the user
made a change to preferences with the GUI (even if the preference
change was a different preference, e.g. instant preview), the
relative path would be silently converted to an absolute path,
evaluated with respect to the working directory of that instance.
Beyond improving clarity and consistency (IMO), this commit allows
for a new feature to be implemented of using relative paths in the
paths preferences. For example, the user may now enter '.' as the
"Working directory" path and now whenever they start LyX from a
directory and create a new file, the default location of the file
will be the directory from which they started LyX, instead of the
user's home directory which is LyX's default and is less intuitive.
No prefs2prefs work is needed because if a relative path were
entered in the preferences dialog before this commit, it was
converted to an absolute path before being stored in preferences. If
a relative path were specified by manually editing the preferences
file, then (unless the path were already automatically converted to
an absolute path by a GUI preferences change, as described above)
the behavior will be the same (the path will be treated as a
relative path).
For related discussion, see the lyx-devel thread here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20160616003010.bnymtcouar7g55ti%40cotopaxi
This commit removes the last use of lyx::support::expandPath() in
LyX's sources.
These were all found by cppcheck. Even in constructors that are there "only
because of std containers" the class should be initialized correctly. You can
never know whether such an object does not get used, and then a nice crash
caused by dereferencing a NULL-pointer is better than undefined behaviour.
A new preference is introduced for allowing the record of the document
directory path in the saved file. Without explicit consent, it is not saved.
If the origin tag contains an invalid/wrong path or garbage, LyX behaves
exactly as before, i.e., included files are simply not found.
This variable was introduced to guard against any bad consequence of the then-new right-to-left
languages support. Let's be bold and get rid of it altogether!
Now right to left support is always enabled.
FileName::tempName() created a new temp file name by using qt to create a
temporary file with a unique name, and then deleting that file and returning
the name. This was unsafe, since other processes or even other threads of the
running LyX could create files with the same name between deletion and then
using the temp name.
This is fixed by using the TempFile class instead. As a side effect, a few
cases where the temp files were not deleted after usage were fixed as well.
The only place that is still unsafe is createTmpDir().
(unless it's already there, in which case it should move to the end of the next paragraph).
Change the preference setting name (mac_like_word_movement to mac_like_cursor_movement)
to better reflect its function.
Patch and description from Bennett Helm
Previously, the format used for included pdf files was the same as for
document export via ps2pdf. This caused unwanted conversion routes, e.g.
export via odt->pdf instead of dvi->ps->pdf.
I renamed the format for included graphics and not for exported documents,
since otherwise the command line syntax for export would change. This would
require more adaptions for the users, since with the chosen solution the
custom converters are almost always changed correctly in prefs2prefs(),
so that only custom external templates need manual adjustement.
If the WA is the last one showing a buffer, then the buffer may either be
closed or kept hidden, or the user is asked. The behaviour is controlled
by a new preference option.
For discussion, see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/142638
This option is set to true by default as this is the most widespread use case.
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- This preference was used for specifying the papersize to xdvi, dvipdfm,
dvips. However, I can't seem to see any effect on the result.
- The papersize should instead be defined in the document settings.
- The global papersize default was misused to also change the tex
output by specifying the papersize as if it was specified in the
document settings. This caused the same lyx document to be outputted
differently on different pcs.
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(e.g., compressed dia, odg, sxd, ...). These need to be marked via the "zipped=native" flag in the RC file.
The old 'dia' configuration is automatically updated (it used to be hardcoded in the code, now it is handled
via the flag).
See also http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg170974.html
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Additionnal extensions are separated by commas (,) in lyxrc
preference files, while spaces are ignored, e.g. "jpg, jpeg".
Preference lyxrc file format incremented to 2.
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in LyXRC::write(), i.e., by listing RC_LAST as the first item in the switch.
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Always wondered why I had to restart LyX after changing the PATH prefix.
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variable. This is done in the preferences, much like as the PATH prefix.
A single '.' in the paths will get replaced with the current document dir
and also non-absolute paths will be prefixed with that dir.
The default semantics of TEXINPUTS apply, such that, for example, if a
path is terminated with a double slash, all subdirectories will be also
searched by both the TeX engine and ancillary programs such as dvi
previewers or dvips. As an example, if the prefix is set to ".:figs", the
TEXINPUTS variable will be set as ".:<docdir>:<docdir>/figs:$ORIGTEXINPUTS",
where <docdir> is the document directory.
The initial '.' is necessary to address the actual current dir (this will
be the temp dir at preview time), while if TEXINPUTS was initially unset,
such that $ORIGTEXINPUTS is empty, a colon (or semicolon on Windows) will
end the path list. This is very important, because we don't want to replace
the system directories but to complement them and, in order to do that, an
empty element has to be present in the list. Indeed, according to the
TEXINPUTS semantics, an empty element means the standard search path.
This works whether TEXINPUTS is originally set or not, because if the
original TEXINPUTS starts with a colon (meaning that the standard search
path is wanted there) we will have an empty element at that point,
otherwise the final colon will simply serve as a path separator.
Of course, on Windows a ';' has to be used as a path separator. LyX will
take care of transforming the platform path list into one understandable
by the TeX engine. For example, this will be the case for a Cygwin version
of LyX using a native Windows TeX engine or viceversa. I tested all of
this and it works for me.
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the size of icons may be wrong when switching between sets with different
normal icon size. One needs to save the preferences, restart LyX and choose
"Normal-sized icons" from the toolbar menu to have the real normal size.
A minor glitch is that the name of the icon sets is translatable, but
currently only the translation for "Default" works. The problem is that I
don't know how to ask gettext for an inverse translation when saving the
preferences. Another possibility would be hardcoding the order of the names
in the combo box (such that to not rely on their names), but that is ugly
and prone to errors if/when other sets are added.
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through the rc setting \icon_set. Preferences dialog will follow shortly.
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- rename \language_package to \language_custom_package
- the bool \language_use_babel is replaced by a more fine-grained selection:
* chose language package automatically (later: babel or polyglossia)
* always use babel (also with XeTeX)
* custom (i.e. use \language_custom_package)
* none (equivalent to former \language_use_babel false)
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By default, if the lyxpipe is set up and working, loading of documents
is deferred to an already running instance. Note that an already running
instance is only used for loading, such that export from command line
still works as usual.
The default behavior can be changed through a preference setting, and,
whatever the default is, it can be overridden by command line options.
Unticking the "Single instance" check box in the preferences, LyX behaves
exactly as before the introduction of this feature.
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What is missing is some feedback on what colors are
set from the system (they should be disabled in the
color list).
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No viewer set by default, which keeps context menu clean for uninterested users.
Settings are hinted at combobox.
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If a dvi file exists in the temp dir, the command specified by the
\forward_search_dvi rc setting is used to initiate the search.
Otherwise, if a pdf file exists, the forward search is performed by
using the command specified by the \forward_search_pdf rc setting.
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more. Worse, it was being used inconsistently. And we don't really need
it.
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