<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Check out the text editor bundled with Ubuntu, "gedit", which has this<br>
feature. Browse a log text file that Squeak is writing to. It<br>
presents a message when it's dirty and gives you the option of<br>
reloading the file. As bad as gedit is in other ways, they excel on<br>
this one.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's fine. It sounds good. But why on earth would one write to a changes file unless one was doing conscious surgery? If someone said "I just made random edits to my C source file and now it no longer compiles.", what would your reaction be?</div>
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Chris,<br>
><br>
> On May 14, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> A much bigger problem than that, though, is how easy it is to lose<br>
>> changes because the file on disk has changed while the image was<br>
>> closed (e.g., edited within another image). When the original image<br>
>> reopens, the text file being edited is not refreshed, it's still the<br>
>> old version, so saving a new change blows away the other changes that<br>
>> were made in the other image while this image was closed.<br>
><br>
> Patient: it hurts when I hit myself in the head.<br>
><br>
> Doctor: don't do that.<br>
><br>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:06 PM, David T. Lewis <<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:30:24PM +0000, <a href="mailto:commits@source.squeak.org">commits@source.squeak.org</a> wrote:<br>
>>>> Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Tools to project The Trunk:<br>
>>>> <a href="http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Tools-nice.521.mcz" target="_blank">http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Tools-nice.521.mcz</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Name: Tools-nice.521<br>
>>>> Author: nice<br>
>>>> Time: 13 May 2014, 10:29:52.892 pm<br>
>>>> UUID: 33d41589-c752-4fa3-9387-2b8b0a8c942b<br>
>>>> Ancestors: Tools-nice.520<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Fix issue <a href="http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5504" target="_blank">http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5504</a><br>
>>>> Saving as a different file name in FileList does incorrectly update text contents to directory contents rather than file contents...<br>
>>>> 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!<br>
>>><br>
>>> Bravo Nicolas! Driving an issue to resolution after so many years is a very good thing.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Dave<br>
>><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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