On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:06:55 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
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
After a long delay, it got added in a similar way:
Since SVN r1612 there are two checkboxes in the Save as dialog: [ ] Open file in a new tab [ ] Rename file
So, a saved as file can be easily opened additionally while the original file is still there. And a file can be easily renamed to something else and the old one will be deleted from disk(e.g. useful for renaming Java classes, also closes #1702822).
Obviously, these options are oppositional and can't be used at the same time.
Regards, Enrico