Re: [Feature request] File date and time check

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:03:49 +0200, Keith Rubow <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Laurent Carcone wrote:
>> Steven Pemberton a écrit :
>>> This is taken from how emacs works, and has saved my bacon a number of

>>> 2) Similarly, just before saving a file, check that the date and time  
>>> of the destination is still the same as it was, warning "The document  
>>> has changed on disk, are you sure you want to save it?" if not.
>>
>> Amaya used to manage the http etags but there was some problems and  
>> some users complained because they couldn't save their document, there  
>> was a 'conflict' message even when they were the only ones to modify  
>> the document. so we disabled this option.
> ... The feature request is to simply warn the user that the document has  
> been changed, and give the user a choice of saving the document or not.  
> Presumably the user could also chose to do a Save As to a new file name,  
> and then then compare the two files to see what other changes had been  
> made to the document to see if the two sets of changes need to be  
> manually merged. I think this is an excellent suggestion.

+1

cheers

Chaals (Who might write a patch before the heat death of the universe, but  
suspects he won't manage :( )

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