I have to agree - I'm used to having the "save as" start up with the existing
filename, with the text selected so that you can just type in a new one from
scratch, or hit the right-arrow to just edit the last letter or digit of the
name.

Git's cool, but when I'm working with others the name+number convention
often helps a lot.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 07:50:36PM +0200, Christof Ressi wrote:
> > Cause to me it doesn???t make sense at all.
> 
> I hope we all agree on that :-) "save as" should start at the current file 
> name, that's the convention and IMO there's absolutely no reason for doing it 
> differently. As people have already noted, the "save as" dialog will already 
> warn you when you try to overwrite an existing file.
> 
> I would do a PR but I'm busy right now. You might file a bug report, so we 
> don't forget.
> 
> Christof
> 
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. September 2019 um 19:26 Uhr
> > Von: "jakob skouborg" <[email protected]>
> > An: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Betreff: Re: [PD-dev] Naming of patch when doing a "save as"
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > the days of "Copy of Copy of Kopie von Comb filter 1.2 (17.12.1997)
> > > final copy.pd" ought to be gone for good.
> > 
> > That is not what what I am saying or expecting. 
> > 
> > It is really very simple, just start from the name of last time the patch 
> > was saved, 
> > like basically any other app in the world does today. Then anyone can write 
> > what 
> > they want from there.
> > 
> > 
> > > if you want to do versioning of patches, you probably should look into a
> > > proper version-control-system, like 'git'.
> > > seriously.
> > 
> > 
> > I think that is overcomplicating the "save as" function a little bit. 
> > 
> > 
> > > and while i still don't have much of an opinion about the suggested
> > > filename, i think that the suggestion shouldn't contain spaces at all
> > > (alternatively you find a simple way to load abstractions with spaces in
> > > their name).
> > 
> > 
> > The name heres was just an example. 
> > 
> > Of course I call abstractions something else, without spaces. 
> > 
> > I am talking about main/master patches. All though you can still call them 
> > ???Patchname1???, etc.
> > 
> > Anyway, I am just curious about that the rationale is for starting from 
> > ???untitled???, 
> > instead of last saved name? Cause to me it doesn???t make sense at all.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On 17 Sep 2019, at 10:00, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 16.09.19 18:05, jakob skouborg wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> I often do a lot of versioning when making complex patches, to avoid
> > >> ruining them. So most of my patches have numbers included.
> > >> 
> > >> Like for example "Comb filter 1.0???
> > > 
> > > ah yes, *that* use-case.
> > > 
> > > if you want to do versioning of patches, you probably should look into a
> > > proper version-control-system, like 'git'.
> > > seriously.
> > > the days of "Copy of Copy of Kopie von Comb filter 1.2 (17.12.1997)
> > > final copy.pd" ought to be gone for good.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > and while i still don't have much of an opinion about the suggested
> > > filename, i think that the suggestion shouldn't contain spaces at all
> > > (alternatively you find a simple way to load abstractions with spaces in
> > > their name).
> > > 
> > > gmasdr
> > > IOhannes
> > > 
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