From: Stefan Schimanski <sts@lyx.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * Added Uwe's comment and a word about \global
X-Git-Tag: 1.6.10~2937
X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8f87b06fbb9ad57167104951220560ff68f918b;p=features.git

* Added Uwe's comment and a word about \global

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@27013 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---

diff --git a/src/mathed/MathMacroTemplate.cpp b/src/mathed/MathMacroTemplate.cpp
index b00e4f9c89..f27c8cdeff 100644
--- a/src/mathed/MathMacroTemplate.cpp
+++ b/src/mathed/MathMacroTemplate.cpp
@@ -1158,8 +1158,10 @@ void MathMacroTemplate::write(WriteStream & os, bool overwriteRedefinition) cons
 			}
 			os << "]";
 		} else {
-			// macros without optionals use standard _global_ \def macros:
-			// \global\def\foo#1#2{#1,#2}
+			// Macros without optionals use standard _global_ \def macros:
+			//   \global\def\long\foo#1#2{#1,#2}
+			// We use the \long prefix as this is the equivalent to \newcommand.
+			// We cannot use \newcommand directly because \global does not work with it.
 			os << "\\global\\long\\def\\" << name();
 			docstring param = from_ascii("#0");
 			for (int i = 1; i <= numargs_; ++i) {