I find this helpful when replicating documents since you wouldn't have to browse through the original directory when renaming the document when it's untitled. You also get to have a pattern from the original filename. It becomes very convenient along with in-place renaming.

I'm happy with how it is but perhaps people would want it to be configurable so that it can be disabled, or given with a different naming format. The latter wouldn't sound easy though.

Reasons for choosing .copy-xx:

Lowercase because it's less noisy.
A dash to make it more distinguishable with the numbers.
2 digits because it's good enough. 1-digit is a little conservative. 3-digits is overkill.
Prefixed with '.copy' because .xx files could exist and could confuse the user; and '.copy' over '.clone' because it's shorter, and it's also common among some file managers, I think.

You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1191

Commit Summary

Give '.copy-xx' filenames to cloned documents
Do not set cloned documents as readonly

File Changes

M src/document.c (36)

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