OK - makes sense now! Craig
On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote: > The behaviors you describe below are indeed both expected & normal: > > Individual file references just move wherever you place them within the file > list. > > Since however folders' contents are automatically listed, if you drag a file > from a folder to some other position in the list, you're just creating a new > reference to that file at the target location. > > Does this help? :-) > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> > > > > On 11/6/14 at 11:27 AM, [email protected] (Craig Heilman) wrote: > >> Thanks for bringing collections to my attention - I think these would be >> useful for keeping a list of documents that I need quick access to at the >> top level of each of my bbedit projects without actually having to move them >> around on the hard drive. I'm seeing some strange behavior though when I add >> or remove items to/from a collection from different levels of my project >> hierarchy. >> >> E.g. project hierarchy looks like this: >> >> collection >> document0.md >> folder1 >> document1.md >> folder 2 >> document2.md >> etc. >> >> If I drag document0.md into the collection, it appears to be "moved" into >> the collection in that it now only appears in the collection and not in the >> top level of the project hierarchy. If I drag document1.md into the >> collection, it appears in both the collection and in it's original folder in >> the hierarchy. >> >> The more disconcerting behavior comes when I select an item in a collection >> and hit the delete key. Items added from a lower level of the project >> hierarchy are simply deleted from the collection but remain in their >> original location. The item that was originally at the top level of the >> hierarchy is deleted from the hierarchy altogether. >> >> Note that none of the above files are actually moved or deleted from the >> hard drive… >> >> Is this considered normal behavior or am I'm missing something? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Craig >> >> >> -- >> Craig Heilman >> Bugaboo Software - Software Engineering & Consulting >> http://www.bugsoft.com/ >> >> >> > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. -- Craig Heilman Bugaboo Software - Software Engineering & Consulting http://www.bugsoft.com/ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
