That analogy is a mischaracterisation of the problem.  Hitting oneself
in the head requires a knowing, concious act.  Accidently saving ones
"notes.txt" in another image can easily occur unknowingly..

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
>>
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