Moving open files

[hentaidan at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

<snip>

> Plus, it really is badly behaved if it writes a "new" file - when it should know it's
> modifying an old file - and doesn't bother to inform the user that the file
> moved.  _That_ should be fairly simple to both fix and get attention for.
> --
> derek
>

Gedit is able to detect changes to an open file - it brings up a warning.

It also detects if the file has been moved and presents the user with
"do you want to save" dialog - though this can be confusing: the file
edit flag isnt set, so it appears saved (this has caught me out a
couple of times).

Charlie