On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 11:50:39 PM UTC Edward K. Ream wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 4:17 PM jkn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> update, after trying with the ekr-change branch:
>>
>> - making a change in the .leo file (outside of leo) now seems to be 
>> noted. I still think the dialog text is confusing though. To my mind 
>> 'overwrite it' smacks of writing something to disc, and the wording should 
>> be more like ... reload into Leo?"
>>
>
> I'll change the dialog.
>

Thanks! 
 

> - just touching the file (ie changing the timestamp) externally doesn't 
>> seem to be noticed by leo, at least not consistently.
>>
>
> That's on purpose. efc.has_changed first checks the timestamps. If they 
> are different, the code then checks that the contents are different. Only 
> then does it raise the dialog.
>
> I thought that might be the case ... understood
 

> - Leo also fails to restart sometimes after answering 'yes'
>>
>
> I'll look into this.
>
> efc.ask does have some weird timing code, which is probably needed because 
> the dialog is raised as the result of checks that are made periodically at 
> idle time.
>

Yes, I appreciate that. Thanks for your continuing work on this

    Jon N

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