Orwell 0.1 beta 1 released!

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 22 May 2006 19:03, The Wiz wrote:
> Oops, sorry. I meant that it does not ask you for a filename to
> open from or save to.
> It uses the filesystem internally and translates document names to
> full paths (and back) seamlessly. All documents are stored in your
> home directory: ~/Documents/Text. We could add in a option to open
> via the file chooser if you like.`

Yuck. That has to be the most insane proposition I have ever heard for 
an editor. As others have posted, how does it cope with editing 
system files, or anything in /etc? Would the user have to drop to 
gedit/vim/emacs for that? In which case, why have your editor at all?

What if I don't have a ~/Documents? What if I have write permission 
to /var/www and want to use your editor to make a quick change?

Enforcing a load/save location is an artificial constraint that has no 
business being on a *nix machine. Here's a parallel: "Of course you 
can drive on this public road, but only if you drive a Ford, and only 
if it's rear-wheel drive." It ain't gonna work.

-- 
If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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