[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Empty file shouldn't prompt to save when being closed (#1710)

[Matthew Brush]

> The "existing capability" label is the reason for closing

It's not an existing capability, although "workaround available" would be fitting.

> please don't hijack issues for different purposes (don't ask to close empty files).

I'm not, it's what the OP said above:

>> if a new file is opened, stuff gets dropped into it and then ctrl-X'd out of it, closing should not prompt for save.

> Anyhow closing and saving empty files is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I'd wager it's far less common than using a temp/untitled file as a scratch buffer (at least for me it's _way_ more common).

> The newly proposed change would remove that possibility.

For the unusual case where someone just wants to create a blank file in a text editor they have no intention of editing, they can just use the Save As button/menu/keybinding, easy peasy.

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