GNU nano - Bugs: bug #50998, [Request] warn immediately when...
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bug #50998: [Request] warn immediately when the on-disk file changes
Submitter: | Richard Neill <richardneill> | ||
Submitted: | Thu 11 May 2017 12:11:46 AM UTC | ||
Severity: | 1 - Wish | Status: | Wont Fix |
Assigned to: | bens | Open/Closed: | Closed |
Thu 29 Jun 2017 09:05:28 AM UTC, comment #5: |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Tue 16 May 2017 07:36:22 PM UTC, comment #4: I regularly get such a warning from Gedit or Geany because I have moved or deleted the relevant file, so I know what you mean.
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Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Tue 16 May 2017 01:06:51 PM UTC, comment #3: Hi - yes, I do get the "File was modified" warning, at the end when I attempt to save the file. So in fact, this issue is less of a problem than I first thought it was (and the most serious risk, of making an error and never knowing about it is mitigated).
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Richard Neill <richardneill> |
Tue 16 May 2017 07:39:28 AM UTC, comment #2: Richard? Can you confirm that you indeed get the "File was modified" warning? Or do you use --tempfile? Or have you bound the 'savefile' function? |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Thu 11 May 2017 09:40:22 AM UTC, comment #1: Doing the save in step 3 should bring up the following warning:
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Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Thu 11 May 2017 12:11:46 AM UTC, original submission:
If a file is open within nano, and the file is changed by a different process, nano does not notify the user. Other editors will warn if this happens.
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Richard Neill <richardneill> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2017-07-22 | bens | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2017-05-16 | bens | Status | None | Wont Fix | |
Summary | [Request] warn of editing conflicts | [Request] warn immediately when the on-disk file changes | |||
2017-05-11 | bens | Severity | 3 - Normal | 1 - Wish | |
Assigned to | None | bens | |||
Summary | Request: Warn of editing conflicts | [Request] warn of editing conflicts |
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Corresponding source code
Mitigated in git, commit 139f9c2f: the warning is more conspicuous.