Check out the text editor bundled with Ubuntu, "gedit", which has this
feature.  Browse a log text file that Squeak is writing to.  It
presents a message when it's dirty and gives you the option of
reloading the file.  As bad as gedit is in other ways, they excel on
this one.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> On May 14, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A much bigger problem than that, though, is how easy it is to lose
>> changes because the file on disk has changed while the image was
>> closed (e.g., edited within another image).  When the original image
>> reopens, the text file being edited is not refreshed, it's still the
>> old version, so saving a new change blows away the other changes that
>> were made in the other image while this image was closed.
>
> Patient: it hurts when I hit myself in the head.
>
> Doctor:  don't do that.
>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:06 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:30:24PM +0000, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>>>> Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Tools to project The Trunk:
>>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Tools-nice.521.mcz
>>>>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>
>>>> Name: Tools-nice.521
>>>> Author: nice
>>>> Time: 13 May 2014, 10:29:52.892 pm
>>>> UUID: 33d41589-c752-4fa3-9387-2b8b0a8c942b
>>>> Ancestors: Tools-nice.520
>>>>
>>>> Fix issue http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5504
>>>> Saving as a different file name in FileList does incorrectly update text contents to directory contents rather than file contents...
>>>> Thanks sumim, 8 years for this report to be taken into account, and 4 years for the fix to get accepted, a chance that it did not rot!
>>>
>>> Bravo Nicolas! Driving an issue to resolution after so many years is a very good thing.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>