Benoit Maisonny wrote: > Sorry I missed it. I thought I searched hard enough... This new feature > is already a major improvement for us, thanks! > > It would be even better if XXE could notify the user when XXE (or an > individual file window in XXE) gets the focus again. This is safer in > the situation where the user saves the file, then the external > application modifies it, then the user starts editing again. > > When the user saves the file, it's already too late to notify: an unsafe > manual merge needs to be performed by the user at this point. If the > user is notified when XXE gets the focus back, the user has a chance to > reload the file before making further changes. This situation is common > with a version management system (save, update, solve conflict if any, > commit). >
Yes, we know that the author could be notified earlier. We have implemented something minimal which is inexpensive to implement and inexpensive to run. We think that document authoring is very different from programming. In our opinion, locking documents when they potentially can be modified by different authors is acceptable. That's why we do not plan to go further in terms of concurrent change detection.
