Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#6887 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add function to reload a document
| Reported by: | humdinger | Owned by: | siarzhuk |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Applications/StyledEdit | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | jwlhc172@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
A nice feature for StyledEdit would be a way to refresh the current file, i.e. a menu item File|Reload (ALT+L] that reloads the file. Could be nice for log files or if you accidentally edited a document.
If the document was altered after it was opened, it should ask if the changes should be saved first and show a save dialog if the user confirms.
Besides this manual reloading, it may also be nice to node-monitor the file and signal if it has been changed after it was opened. I could imagine that an Alert would be too annoying. How about showing a changed file by adding a italic "- reload?" or something or just some symbol like "¤¤¤"?
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
Pe doesn't show when the file has been altered. It does provide a manual "Revert..." that will ask to load the last saved version. That's OK, too, I just named it "Reload..." to get an "L" in there for a nice shortcut. :)
No monitoring, though, with Pe.
Maybe an alert isn't too annoying after all... worth a try, I guess.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
Hm, I thought it did, maybe I'm getting it confused with my env at work. Will need to check later.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
Pe definitely node-monitors any open file, I use that all the time. If you just rename or move the file, nothing "happens", as Pe will simply follow the file around. But if some other app changes contents, Pe will make the file saveable, if it wasn't before. It used to display an alert, and it may still do so under certain conditions.
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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comment:6 by , 12 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
It would be nice to have this option with extended functionality and make it possible to reload the document with changing file encoding on the fly. Menu structure can be following:
File
Reload <Alt-L>
ISO West European
[...]
Macintosh Roman
[...]
so selecting "root" Reload entry will reload document in current encoding and selecting "leaf" encoding entries should force the text encoding to corresponding charset.
comment:7 by , 12 years ago
This issue was published as GCI 2012 task http://google-melange.appspot.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7977207 I take ownership of it.
Have you looked at how Pe handles it? IMHO an alert isn't unreasonable in this case since if the file was modified out from under you, you probably don't want to be dealing with out of date contents.