From 82e603cf0c5a844f954db124a154aa1289d8a35c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Schimanski <sts@lyx.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:15:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * create a new window for a help file if there is none

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@27024 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 src/LyXFunc.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/LyXFunc.cpp b/src/LyXFunc.cpp
index ca9e5fef6b..e2c2ccb57b 100644
--- a/src/LyXFunc.cpp
+++ b/src/LyXFunc.cpp
@@ -1029,7 +1029,8 @@ void LyXFunc::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd)
 			break;
 
 		case LFUN_HELP_OPEN: {
-			LASSERT(lyx_view_, /**/);
+			if (lyx_view_ == 0)
+				theApp()->dispatch(FuncRequest(LFUN_WINDOW_NEW));
 			string const arg = argument;
 			if (arg.empty()) {
 				setErrorMessage(from_ascii(N_("Missing argument")));
-- 
2.39.5