Hi there!
On 12 Jan 00, at 23:13, Andrew K. Lovetski wrote
about "Re: suggestion- / wish-list":
> Oh, just another idea how TB could see if the editing was over: many
> editors open the file exclusively and do not allow to open it for
> editing in other programs (MS Word, for example) or delete it. So TB
> could check if the file is still opened exclusively and send the
> message just when the file gets closed.
Nope, won't work. Say, WinEdt will allow you to delete the file you're editing,
using another application. And it's a good thing IMHO. For example, when I'm
using TeX, it's pretty good idea to have the log file always opened, so that I
can glance through the TeX warnings (my current system is fast enough not
to let me read them when TeX compiles the file<g> I can't read that fast;-)).
So WinEdt just *lets* TeX overwrite the <filename>.log file being opened in
the editor, no problem. It would be bad IMHO if my editor didn't provide the
support for this. BTW, WinEdt has the option to switch to the opposite
behaviour, too;-)
> Another way is to see when the file gets updated - and Windows can
> tell you about this itself, you won't need any periodical checking.
> And if there were no updates, the message should not be sent at all
> (or get modified - if we talk about editing a draft).
Would work, but it's not universal. It doesn't take care of all the possible
cases;-(
> Two approaches combined - and we seem to get a system working with
> almost every editor... May be, though, I'm missing smth...
What do you think now?
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