On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:

> """
> My present plan is to write a helper, say c.write_vnode, that will
> discover the external file (if any) containing the vnode, and immediately
> write that external file *without* a prompt.  If there is no external file,
> c.write_vnode could just do an ordinary save of the .leo file and all dirty
> external files.
> """
>
> Maybe a relatively safe solution is to do this:
>
> 1) My present plan is to write a helper, say c.write_vnode, that will
> discover the external file (if any) containing the vnode, and immediately
> write that external file *without* a prompt.
>
> But not do this:
>
> 2) If there is no external file, c.write_vnode could just do an ordinary
> save of the .leo file and all dirty external files.
>
> This way, if you "want to be safe", you will create an external @file for
> the content.
>
> For situation 2), some kind of loud warning is in order, not sure of what
> kind though. Red g.es?
>

Thanks for this suggestion.  I have a great distrust of all operations
containing "if" statements in their explanation.  Somehow, we need a
simpler approach, but I don't know what it is.

For now, I'm going to file this under Leo/Bugs.  Feel free to up the heat
by posting a real bug report.

Edward

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