[Geany] Enabling save after no changes

[Greg Smith]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Enrico Tröger wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:28:41 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith
> <gsmith at gregsmith.com> wrote:
>
>> There's multiple use cases this doesn't support too.  I might want to
>> save a file just to update its timestamp, or just to confirm that I
>> have appropriate permissions to change it before I actually begin
>> editing it.
>
> For those things I would do in a console:
> touch filename
> or
> ls -l filename

There are several situations where the information given by "ls -l" is not 
actually sufficient to tell you whether you can edit a file.  Examples 
include SELinux and Posix ACL environmentions.  Network mounts can be 
difficult here too if the permissions mapping is done badly or is 
complicated.

Stepping aside from that, anytime a solution to an editing problem 
involves dropping to the command line, that suggests to me that there's 
something that could be improved in the editor.

> If we add something like this, I'd prefer it to be a hidden option as
> it will be probably unlikely that many people will use it.

Within a few minutes of me sending my message, Thomas noted that this 
would be handy to him as well to update the timestamp so make will run 
again.  That's one of the examples I was thinking of too.  I know you 
would just run touch on the file.  While I respect that and that this 
feature would be considered valuable by some, I think you'd be surprised 
by how many people would prefer this application to just work the same as 
most others here.  UI consistency across applications is a virtue, and if 
something that improves that is available I can't imagine why you'd 
consider hiding it.

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* Greg Smith gsmith at gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD