Technically, the plugin is not behaving "wrong", because it exactly does as
advertised. Still, what is doing is dangerous: If the file is not locked by me,
but - as in case of a file on a network share, which might be locked by a
completely different person, and I even don't know by whom -, I'm losing all my
unsaved work.
How about this:
Make the popup-dialogue non-modal and modify the plugin in that way, that it
does not show a popup for a certain file (to be saved), if there is one still
open.
Another possibility would be that the plugin - if Geany plugins have access to
the status bar - do not show up the dialogue box, but instead display a message
"file can't be saved because it is locked". While this is not a very
user-friendly way - messages can easily be overseen -, it's still better than
risking that work gets lost.
A third possibility would be that the plugin, if we change the popup. Instead
of having only one button ("OK"), we now have two buttons ("OK", "Save as..."),
which permits the user to save the file under a different name. This would be
handy even if the plugin is not active, because we always may run into the
problem that our file has been locked and we can't do anything against it, but
at least we want to quickly save our work.
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