Thanks Stef,

I'm running Squeak3.6-5429. And you are right! There is a 'file it in' 
command towards the top of the second menu, hidden between 'pretty print 
with color' and 'tiles from it'. But it seems to take the selected text as 
a file name and fileIn that file. Not quite what I need..

There is also a command towards the bottom of the same menu:
    'save contents to file...'.
It writes a file with extension '.text', the file seems to contain the 
workspace characters, but no emphasis. I like to keep a distinction between 
Text and String, they are so often confused in the big world out there. I 
am also surprised that the corresponding 'read contents from file...' is 
missing.  I used the accept and cancel commands, because that simply makes 
the Workspace persistent.

The Workspace has a three level menu with an extraordinary set of commands. 
So may be the two commands I need are hidden somewhere, but I haven't found 
them.

The reason I have used a special extension is that I am used to our OOram 
FileList that opens a Workspace automagically (We can say 'open' to 
.st-files, .ws-files and quite a few others and get the proper tool).

So the question remains: Is the '.ws'-extension free?

--Trygve


At 28.02.2004 20:18, you wrote:
>Hi trygve
>
>In 5707 the workspace menu proposes save contents to a file or to append 
>it. I did not not check in 3.6
>but I remember that I harvested it so this should not be in 3.6 but is in 
>3.7alpha
>
>Stef
>
>
>On 28 févr. 04, at 16:39, Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
>
>>I have added/modified two methods to make the Workspace text persistent. 
>>'accept' writes the text to a Text file, default name is the name of the 
>>window. 'cancel' reads a corresponding file.
>>
>>Now a question before I publish this very small small goodie:
>>    I have used '.ws' as file extension. Does that conflict with anything 
>> else?
>>    If so, what should I use?
>>
>>Regards
>>--Trygve
>>
>>P.S. I use persistent workspaces as notebooks/logs so that I remember how 
>>to recreate my working image from scratch.
>>
>>--
>>
>>Trygve Reenskaug      mailto: trygver at ifi.uio.no
>>Morgedalsvn. 5A       http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver
>>N-0378 Oslo           Tel: (+47) 22 49 57 27
>>Norway
>>
>>
>
>


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Trygve Reenskaug      mailto: trygver at ifi.uio.no
Morgedalsvn. 5A       http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver
N-0378 Oslo           Tel: (+47) 22 49 57 27
Norway