[newbie] How do you save to a file?

Stephan B. Wessels stephan.wessels at sdrc.com
Tue Apr 20 14:25:16 UTC 1999


Wait!

It turns out that you have to have the actual text pane selected and then Alt-O works in windows.  I was using the file list when typing keys.

  - Steve

"Stephan B. Wessels" wrote:

> Dan,
>
> I've always suspected that was true just because it seems so obvious in need.  How do I do this from Windows?  Ctrl-O and Alt-O does not appear to do anything.
>
>   - Steve
>
> Dan Ingalls wrote:
>
> > "Stephan B. Wessels" <stephan.wessels at sdrc.com> wrote...
> >
> > >I find myself wanting to save from a workspace pretty often.  My solution was to
> > >subclass Workspace and add contents save code and a menu entry to make it
> > >happen.  It's pretty simple to do.  If there's interest I'll post the code here.
> >
> > Another solution to this is to work in a fileList.  If you don't like the extra realEstate consumed by the list part, just 'spawn' (cmd-o) the file.  A lot of people don't kow about this feature of most browsers.  In this case, it gives you something as simple as a workspace (without stored variables, it's true), but with file save available.
> >
> >         - Dan





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