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[Kostas Oikonomou <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> > - While it is nice that Texmacs keeps track if a document has been 
> > modified after the last save, I think it is a bad idea not to save the 
> > document if the user wants it ("No changes need to be saved").
> > For example, the old method for editing composite documents had a bug, 
> > where the composite document was scattered with source code fragments if 
> > one of the included documents was set to "source view" (haven't checked
> > it on the current version, though). Thus: 1. open the included file, 2. 
> > switch off source view, 3. save the file. BUT that did not work, since 
> > TeXmacs still thought the document was unchanged, and ignored the save 
> > command.
> > So this feature opens up the possibility for very nasty bugs leading to 
> > data loss. The other point is, you never know WHY the user wants to 
> > save, so let him save. For example, he might have deleted the file and 
> > wants it to be recreated, or he wants a current date/time stamp on the file.

> Yes, you are probably right; I copied the behaviour from Emacs.


Just one comment here: Emacs has two distinct commands "C-x 
C-s" for "save" and
"C-x C-w" for "write".    C-x C-w works correctly in 
TeXmacs, and saves (writes) the file
irrespective of whether TeXmacs think it needs to be saved 
or not.

I like the Emacs behavior, and I would not like TeXmacs to 
fall into the "Windows way of being",
where the operating system or application attempts to be 
smarter than the user.


                                                Kostas