<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>Ok, so no editor is able to write to a file with append attribute.<br><div><br>So is that attribute mainly for log files?<br></div></div><div><br>Thanks.<br></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp56feef48signature"><div style="font-size:16px;"><div>Sent via personal computer</div><div><span style="margin:0px 0px 5px;line-height:24px;position:relative;font-family:'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="ydp2ea16343yiv1368970089bodyContent">"It is always too soon to quit."</span><br></div></div></div></div>
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On Monday, September 3, 2018, 5:05:18 PM CDT, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">An editor changes the contents of the file, changes could be anywhere,<br clear="none">not just at the end. Therefore the whole file is re-written on save<br clear="none">which is not an append operation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers<br clear="none">Lex<br clear="none">On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 01:07, Andrew Kennedy via Users<br clear="none"><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:users@lists.geany.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">users@lists.geany.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I added the append only attribute to a text file.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> But I get operation not permitted when I try to use Geany to edit the file.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> But I can use "echo new >> test.txt and it does append.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> What am I not understanding?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks,<br clear="none">> Andrew Kennedy<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Sent via personal computer<br clear="none">> "It is always too soon to quit."<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Users mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><div class="ydpfd96e1b8yqt6013344640" id="ydpfd96e1b8yqtfd44367"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Users@lists.geany.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Users@lists.geany.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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