[Geany-devel] save all on build - Re: Patches required by gproject

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:22:07 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 June 2010 03:22, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:42:59 +1000
> > Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >> I remember there was some discussion about saving everything
> >> >> when I started the build system changes.  I don't remember why
> >> >> it wasn't done. Can anyone think of a reason to not save all
> >> >> files? If no one can then I'll consider it a bug.
> >> >
> >> > What if you didn't want all the files saved? I think it's safe
> >> > to save the current file as the user is currently looking at it.
> >> > But they may have modified other files they haven't decided to
> >> > save yet.
> >>
> >> Well until the Geany mind reading module is perfected... :-)
> >>
> >> I guess the usual answer, add a preference setting.  I really find
> >> it a @#$%^ nuisance when I forget to save all the files I want to
> >> compile :-(
> >
> > I don't think it's a good pref for Geany to save all open files.
> > This pref is perhaps better suited only for files in the current
> > project's path.
> 
> Well, it should be at least the tree, not just the path, but the
> reason for the grouch above was that I had just done it *again*, and
> all I had was one .hpp and one .cpp, no project in sight.
> 
> In other words, I don't think its just project related, people who
> don't use projects are just as likely to make the mistake.

I totally understand your intention behind, but not sure either whether
its an good idea to save all session files at all. Shift-Ctrl-s is
already doing something like this. Whether another option can help here
I doubt, but why not. At least somebody has to build it ;)

Cheers, 
Frank 
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