Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit & MacPerl

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

Chris writes:

> >Usually BBEdit prompts you to save changes.
> 
> Only if the changes were made in BBEdit. BBEdit reasonably
> thinks that it has write control over the file.


Actually, I would say this is not reasonable behavior for an
application running in an operating system capable of context
switching on-the-fly between concurrent applications. I think
reasonably astute users would expect files to ONLY be written
in a save operation.

I think I'd be pretty pissed off if, for instance, I created
a file in BBEdit and saved it. Forgot to close the window.
Then executed a MacPerl script that appended or otherwise
modified the file. Then went back to BBEdit to look at the
changes. Realized that I had not closed the window and needed
to reload the file. Closed the window. Reopened the file and
found that BBEdit had automatically erased everything I did
since my original save operation... Actually, I'd be totally
confused as to why my script didn't run at first... THEN I'd
be pissed that I had to waste my time debugging a non problem!

>From what SeanC describes, this sounds like a plausible and
not too unlikely scenario.

jay

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