On 27 January 2011 18:42, Jon Senior jon@restlesslemon.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:23:50 -0500 Randy Kramer rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, from Neil's response to this thread, I see that there is a misunderstanding somewhere--I did not intend to say that the changes would be visible in both (or all) instances of the editor.
But, that doesn't keep me from working on them just fine.
(And, if I save the file in one instance of the editor after making changes, when I go to that file in an other instance of the editor, I'm warned that the file on disk doesn't match the one I'm about to edit, and I'm prompted to do things like reload the file. (Nedit is an example.))
geany will do the same (I've made use of this in the past. Open a log file in geany then re-run the code that generates the file and geany will ask me if I want to reload the file). As I understand things, you can force a new instance of geany, and you could open a file in both instances. Personally if I want to look at one part of a file and edit another, I prefer to use something passive like "less", which is far less prone to accidental overwriting.
Jon
Hi Jon,
You don't have to forgo Geany if you only want to read the file in another instance, just set Document->read only and you don't have to accept anything less (boom boom :-).
The problems are when editing prefs/projects/files in more than one instance.
Cheers Lex
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