On 4/24/07, François Cami fcami@winsoft.fr wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:32:08 -0400 "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/24/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Add to file menu "Save copy as..."
This used to be common on many Mac IDEs. Very useful e.g. when editing a system file, when you want to save an original.
Well, there's already a "Save As" menu item. What exactly do you want "Save copy as..." to do, and how would it be different from "Save As"?
"Save As..." opens the saved file afterwards. "Save copy as..." would not open the copy (the original file is still in the editor).
So, you open a file, you make some changes to it and the editor indicates that it's been modified but not saved. You choose "Save Copy As", pick a file name, and after that new file is saved, the editor is still showing you the original file -- still indicating that it's been modified and not saved?
If that's the case, I'm not sure what the point is. To get the original file back to its previous state, you either have to close it and don't save, or else undo your way back. Why wouldn't you just cp the original file beforehand, then edit that copy directly?
What I could see maybe being useful would be to add these checkboxes to the "Save As" dialog:
[_] Open saved-as file in new tab [_] Reload original file
(where the 2nd one only becomes active if the first one is checked).