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<p>Why not simply checking that the remaining space is greater than the current file size and only allow to save in that case?</p>
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<p>Because that information is not available cheaply, reliably, and portably for all filesystem types and platforms Geany is available on, if a save fails just save somewhere else and see what the problem is, it could be lots of things not just out of space.</p>
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<p>There is no way to think that when exiting an editor after it says there is no more space left on device, that editor will <em>null out</em> your precious file! So expecting that the user will save his data elsewhere before exiting is clearly not the correct way...</p>

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