[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Tools-nice.521.mcz

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed May 14 19:17:36 UTC 2014


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

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?


> 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.orgwrote:
> >>>> 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
> >>
> >
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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