An editor changes the contents of the file, changes could be anywhere,
not just at the end.  Therefore the whole file is re-written on save
which is not an append operation.

Cheers
Lex
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 01:07, Andrew Kennedy via Users
<users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
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> I added the append only attribute to a text file.
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> But I get operation not permitted when I try to use Geany to edit the file.
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> But I can use "echo new >> test.txt and it does append.
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> What am I not understanding?
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> Thanks,
>                Andrew Kennedy
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