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Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Henri Lesourd wrote:

3. [PROBLEM] the ~ naming mechanism interferes badly with the
shell : it doubles the number of .tm files that appear as
an output of ls (or inside a file explorer under X) ; on
the other hand, it disturbs the TAB completion mechanism ;

I don't see how it disturbs the tab completion

It disturbs the tab completion because it is ambiguous : when
you type :
[[
bash> emacs foo{TAB}
]]

, and when the tab completion mechanism tells you that there are
other choices, you don't know if it is because :

(1) there are two files foo and foo~ ;

(2) there are several files starting with the prefix foo, for
example "foo", "foo2" "foo3"... ;

It would be better to be able to rule out the case (1) all
the time. One can tell me that in fact, I could type TAB
twice, to get :
[[
bash> emacs foo{TAB}{TAB}
foo foo~
bash> emacs foo
]]

, then I would know that foo & foo~ exist, but the very problem
is that I had to think about that, thus I lost some thinking for
nothing really interesting.

Of course, this is not a huge problem, but...

(which I use and like, I install bash-completion everywhere I can to make it even more useful). In 99% of cases, the next editing session should start from the latest saved version;

This is the problem : it doesn't seem that TeXmacs does that all
the time : copy foo.to to foo.tm~, and sometimes TeXmacs completely
the more recent foo.tm~ file... In this case, when it starts,
shouldn't TeXmacs tell you that there exists a more recent
version of foo.tm ?

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• store the backup files in a separate directory, Kamaraju Kusumanchi, 03/10/2006
  • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Henri Lesourd, 03/10/2006
    • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/11/2006
      • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Henri Lesourd, 03/11/2006
        • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, David MENTRE, 03/11/2006
          • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Henri Lesourd, 03/11/2006
        • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Kamaraju Kusumanchi, 03/11/2006
          • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Kris Kuhlman, 03/11/2006
        • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/12/2006
          • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Henri Lesourd, 03/12/2006
            • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, David MENTRE, 03/12/2006
              • Re: [TeXmacs] store the backup files in a separate directory, Kamaraju Kusumanchi, 03/12/2006

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