Like I said, the "we know better than you" mentality. Nevermind that there is a method *already written* that saves a single file and probably thrown inside a loop to handle all open files in the editor.
Nevermind that all they have to do is exposed that on the menu and would take maybe 10 min. to implement. Nevermind that adding this functionality in no way impacts any of you who prefer the heavy handed save all files approach. "Chris Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Michael Morett wrote: > > This heavy handed "I know better than you" approach by the IDE is not > > helpful. For christ sake, what is the worst that can happen if I choose to > > save a file by itself? What is the downside? Suddenly things may not > > compile? So what. I can address that. This "let me save it for you and > > you can undo it if you dont like it" mentality is horrible. > > Given how many hundreds-of-thousands-of man-hours have been lost due to > unsaved changes getting lost since the dawn of computers...I must dissent. > Applications should assume that every change I make is intentional -- with > the obvious need for the ability to undo those changes. > > Applications should be programmed to the rule, rather than the exception. > The rule is that when I make a change...I mean it. The exception (undo > a change) should be handled as an exception - signaled by intervention by the > user (e.g. the 'undo' command). This is a basic tenet of good application > design: Anything that can be automated (reliably) should be. Handle all the > exceptional cases...but don't design the program around them. > > And why should the rest of us care? Because we don't want the JetBrains > team wasting time to solve a problem that (we think) has already been solved - > and very well, at that! > We want them solving the bigger problems - the ones that make us more > productive. > > > > ********************************* > Chris Merrill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
