Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit & MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.12 -0500 1999.02.19, Jay Bedsole wrote:
>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 it is not unreasonable; open the same file for writing in two
places, get unexpected results.  Just "don't do that."

But it is not even BBEdit that is doing the saving.  Really.  It is MacPerl.

1. create window in MacPerl
2. type "foo"
3. save
4. hit cmd-e in MacPerl to open in BBEdit
5. type "bar" in MacPerl, save, close
6. close in BBEdit
7. open in BBEdit or MacPerl

You will see "foo".

Now add:

5a. Quit MacPerl

Now on 7. you will see "foobar".

Realize that the file in BBEdit that you are editing is not even the same
file that is open in MacPerl.  So when you close it in BBEdit, MacPerl says
"OK, he is done, now let's save it."  Unless MacPerl is not available to do
this.

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