Account for old versions of Pygments

[lyx.git] / src / buffer_funcs.cpp

diff --git a/src/buffer_funcs.cpp b/src/buffer_funcs.cpp
index 03ecc90abeb9d9a8bea5c4ec654ac38fde923016..beab239fc31215dda29f21e2c7f4e9df803dd5e2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/buffer_funcs.cpp
+++ b/src/buffer_funcs.cpp
@@ -95,12 +95,18 @@ Buffer * checkAndLoadLyXFile(FileName const & filename, bool const acceptDirty)
        bool const exists = filename.exists();
        bool const tryVC = exists ? false : LyXVC::fileInVC(filename);
        if (exists || tryVC) {
-               if (exists && !filename.isReadableFile()) {
-                       docstring text = bformat(_("The file %1$s exists but is not "
-                               "readable by the current user."),
-                               from_utf8(filename.absFileName()));
-                       Alert::error(_("File not readable!"), text);
-                       return 0;
+               if (exists) {
+                       if (!filename.isReadableFile()) {
+                               docstring text = bformat(_("The file %1$s exists but is not "
+                                       "readable by the current user."),
+                                       from_utf8(filename.absFileName()));
+                               Alert::error(_("File not readable!"), text);
+                               return 0;
+                       }
+                       if (filename.extension() == "lyx" && filename.isFileEmpty()) {
+                               // Makes it possible to open an empty (0 bytes) .lyx file
+                               return newFile(filename.absFileName(), "", true);
+                       }
                }
                Buffer * b = theBufferList().newBuffer(filename.absFileName());
                if (!b) {