Can't open example files in LyX (greyed out) I am trying to bring up LyX on a mac. One of the first things in the tutorial is to go look at the file named example_raw.lyx.

  

I know the file is on my machine because I found it using terminal, i.e., find / name "example_raw.lyx" -print 2&gt; /dev/null reveals that the file is in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples.



But, when I try to open it from the LyX GUI, there doesn't seem to be any way for me to navigate to the folder that contains the file -- everything inside /Applications is greyed out and denies any kind of clicking; I tried all thirty-two combinations of option, command, control, shift and double versus single clicking.  



I suspect this is more of a general question concerning the open-dialog on Mac.  I am VERY NEW to the Macintosh GUI even though I know Unix well and Windows well.  I'll take any solution to this problem, either specific or general: a way just to keyboard in the path I want, or some way to click around that will let me get to my stuff, or some LyX-specific solution that gets me access to their examples.  

All this user-friendliness is frustrating :)
If LyX utilizes the Open File dialog appropriately, you should be able to visit any path directly via the Finder shortcut ⇧⌘G.  Tab completion works in the resulting path dialog.  

If LyX does not allow browsing via path, I would just copy the files to a temporary directory to bypass the difficulty. 

Sidebar
Mac OS is full of very handy keyboard shortcuts that work fairly consistently.  See this link for a fairly comprehensive list. Since you're familiar with UNIX, it may help to note basic Emacs navigation also works in most text editing contexts--C-b, C-f,C-a,C-e, C-k, C-y.