[Github-comments] [geany] Geany hangs on saving a certain file (reproducible) (#815)

rovf notifications at xxxxx
Wed Dec 16 07:35:41 UTC 2015


Technically, the plugin is not behaving "wrong", because it exactly does as advertised. Still, what is doing is dangerous: If the file is not locked by me, but - as in case of a file on a network share, which might be locked by a completely different person, and I even don't know by whom -, I'm losing all my unsaved work.

How about this: 

Make the popup-dialogue non-modal and modify the plugin in that way, that it does not show a popup for a certain file (to be saved), if there is one still open.

Another possibility would be that the plugin - if Geany plugins have access to the status bar - do not show up the dialogue box, but instead display a message "file can't be saved because it is locked". While this is not a very user-friendly way - messages can easily be overseen -, it's still better than risking that work gets lost.

A third possibility would be that the plugin, if we change the popup. Instead of having only one button ("OK"), we now have two buttons ("OK", "Save as..."), which permits the user to save the file under a different name. This would be handy even if the plugin is not active, because we always may run into the problem that our file has been locked and we can't do anything against it, but at least we want to quickly save our work.

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