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- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 20:04 BST-1
- From: Mark Himsley <mdsh@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: REOPEN / REVERT
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.477728@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <9406241226.AA01018@lip.ens-lyon.fr>
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- Vincent Lefevre:-
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- >vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- >)>)Yes, reOPEN realy tells the user exactly what is going to happen, in the
- >)>)same vain as 'save' and 'save as...'
- >)>
- >)>Yes, but REOPEN, to me, means 'open another copy of the same file',
- >)>rather than 'discard what's in memory and load the last saved version',
- >)>which is REVERT.
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- >The Oxford dictionary defines revert as
- >
- >"Return to previous state"
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >These definitions of REVERT are different!!!
- >
- >If you abandon the text and reload the last version, it is REOPEN.
- >REVERT means that you cancel all the changes (since the last OPEN/SAVE in
- >the window); and you don't load anything.
-
- This is VERY true, we are talking about a multi tasking environment.
- For instance, I've typed this message in Everest. I want to spell check and
- continue to type, so I save the text file, run a spell check app, which
- re-writes the file but with the spellings corrected (and God do the need
- it!) I then need to re-open the file in Everest, so I have the spell
- checked version.
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- So re-open and revert are very diffrent!
- And who is going to keep an undo buffer that will undo every key press/mouse
- action since a file was opened?
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- Mark H.
- mdsh@cix.compulink.co.uk
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