Orwell 0.1 beta 1 released!

[ruscook]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Maybe it's named Orwell(ian) for a very good reason :-)

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