Dear Developers,
How about one simple feature request:
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.
Faithful geany user.
On 4/24/07, Mikhail Savitsky mikhail.savitsky@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Developers,
How about one simple feature request:
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"?
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:
Dear Developers,
How about one simple feature request:
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).
Cheers
François
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).
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?
Yes, you just took a snapshot of this file when editing it. A backup copy. VMS had this feature directly in its filesystem, each write to the current file created a new version.
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?
Reverting to the previous state is not the issue. The file saved through the "Save copy as..." is identical to the file in the editor. The file in the editor is not reverted to its saved state. Using cp would be too slow. Not that I mind using the CLI, but a "Save copy as..." feature is probably faster.
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).
Nice, but I do not think that reverting to saved state is the idea there.
Cheers
François
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:18:24 +0200, François Cami fcami@winsoft.fr wrote:
Hi,
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).
Nice, but I do not think that reverting to saved state is the idea there.
Well, I don't want to add a "Save copy as" menu item. I agree with John that it is in most cases sufficient to do a cp on the command line or use a file browser. But that's only my opinion ;-). Anyway, adding this minor useful item to the file menu would it probably more blow up than it is useful. So I would rather add one check box to the Save As dialog to open the newly saved file additionally to the original one. I don't think we need to add the Reload original file checkbox, probably it does more confuse than help.
Regards, Enrico
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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