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Agree that this is a PITA. Since there is a solution available, why not improve the user experience?
I agree, the modal dialog is horrible, especially when you get them multiple times in a row (since it pops up for each changed document) which is not uncommon after switching branches/tags in a VCS.
or when looking at generated files whilst debugging the program that generates them.
Thomas also mentioned on IRC that Gedit makes a document "read-only" when it detects disk-changes, which seems like a completely sane and safe thing to do, although potentially also annoying. Do we want to do this as well, in addition to the stuff being discussed above?
Might be good, except when the document has modifications already.
And it also forces the user to respond immediately, whichis what we want to avoid.
Wrong. You can still give no immediately response, e.g. by changing to another document or just viewing the document. Requiring an action if you are actually going to deal with the document in question is OK for me.
Well, I don't really agree with being forced to do something to continue use of a file, *I'M* in charge of this program, not the other way around </rant> but its not that big a point.
FWIW, aligning with Gedit might be more convinient for newcomers that come from gedit. This doesn't have to be a reason for us to do anything, but might become an interesting point if Mint really replaces Gedit with Geany.
But this is a big point, as a matter of principle, Geany should not compromise being the best (lightweight) IDE it can be just to be similar to some dumbed down version.
Cheers Lex
Best regards.
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