On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 22:20 +0100, Paolo Borelli wrote: > As I already said to Murray, I'm not opposed to having this plugin off > by default if so is decided. > > However I'd like to point out that we didn't think of this feature after > too much wine, but we got requests for it. Note also that this kind of > functionality is present in other text editors
I think it's a pretty useful feature. Long-term I'd still like to see an icon representing the current document that I can simply drag onto a folder window, perhaps with a modifier key (shift is usual I think) to save a copy. The experiments at Sun some 10 years ago with this model seemed pretty successful. In the mean-time, "save a copy" is pretty common in other programs, although gimp is the only one I can think of immediately that has it. The advantage is that after "save a copy", alt-S (or whatever) to save the current file still saves onto the original filename. For example, you could be sending a letter to five people that's almost identical except for their names and an introductory paragraph, and use save-as to make five very similar files without any risk of putting the per-person changes back into the master file. There are other ways to do this (e.g., for i in james david patti simon joy; do cp master letter-to-$i; done; vi letter-to* but that's a very different style of working) Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
