We might also implement a collaboration framework analog to what exists in Abiword.
Regards, Jean Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 22:26 -0300, Felipe Castro a écrit : > 2009/7/14 bill lam <cbill....@gmail.com>: > > I might not remember correctly, excel (application) changes and flush > > a few bytes in the excel file when opening it. If another user opens > > that file again using excel, excel will issue a warning to the second > > user that the file is read only. This does not depend on file system > > lock. There are cases where an excel file is incorrectly flagged as > > readonly if that file was not closed properly. > > Yes, that's it. And it's not only a simple "handy" feature. It's a > vital one, for any work in group over a bunch of files which are > located somewhere in a network. I'm using Excel and want to migrate to > Gnumeric. But this thing is keeping me away from the changing... > > So it's not a Windows only problem. This would be useful in any kind > of OS. The Vim program gives the following message, when the file is > already opened an the internal buffer changed (or when it wasn't > closed properly before saving): > > -------------------------------------- > Found a swap file by the name ".teste.txt.swp" > owned by: ipe dated: Tue Jul 14 22:21:30 2009 > file name: ~ipe/tmp/Windows/teste.txt > modified: YES > user name: ipe host name: feo > process ID: 4830 > While opening file "teste.txt" > dated: Tue Jul 14 22:21:05 2009 > > (1) Another program may be editing the same file. > If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two > different instances of the same file when making changes. > Quit, or continue with caution. > > (2) An edit session for this file crashed. > If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r teste.txt" > to recover the changes (see ":help recovery"). > If you did this already, delete the swap file ".teste.txt.swp" > to avoid this message. > > Swap file ".teste.txt.swp" already exists! > [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort: > -------------------------------------- > > > So, that's my suggestion, don't know if it's too difficult to > implement. Anyway, it's really very useful. > > Regards, > > Felipe Castro. > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > gnumeric-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
