TW 4.0

Hmmm, nothing major changed for me in this version. The drawer of open
files has become a pane but that's about it.

I use "Save a copy" a lot which was why I was disturbed to find this bug
in 3.5.x, which does not appear to have been fixed in 4.0:

1) Edit your file

2) Decide to save a copy somewhere. Select File -> Save a Copy...

3) At this point something happens (e.g. phone rings) and you *forget*
to navigate elsewhere in the file system.

4) Click on Save button. Click Replace when prompted (you expected to do
this because there was, in fact, already a file of that name in the
other spot in the file system, from when you did this yesterday).

5) See a nasty looking pop-down warning that the file seems to have been
modified on disk by another application. Take the "safe" option and
click cancel.

6) Thinking you'll back out and start again, close the window of this
file in TW, intending to reopen it, perhaps later.

7) Discover now or some time later that your file on disk is now zero
bytes long. Luckily you are not a fathead and you have a backup. Or two.
But, of course, any changes you made in (1) are now lost.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689

In article <timstreater->,
Tim Streater <> wrote:

> Hmmm, nothing major changed for me in this version. The drawer of open
> files has become a pane but that's about it.
>
> I use "Save a copy" a lot which was why I was disturbed to find this bug
> in 3.5.x, which does not appear to have been fixed in 4.0:
>
> 1) Edit your file
>
> 2) Decide to save a copy somewhere. Select File -> Save a Copy...
>
> 3) At this point something happens (e.g. phone rings) and you *forget*
> to navigate elsewhere in the file system.
>
> 4) Click on Save button. Click Replace when prompted (you expected to do
> this because there was, in fact, already a file of that name in the
> other spot in the file system, from when you did this yesterday).
>
> 5) See a nasty looking pop-down warning that the file seems to have been
> modified on disk by another application. Take the "safe" option and
> click cancel.
>
> 6) Thinking you'll back out and start again, close the window of this
> file in TW, intending to reopen it, perhaps later.
>
> 7) Discover now or some time later that your file on disk is now zero
> bytes long. Luckily you are not a fathead and you have a backup. Or two.
> But, of course, any changes you made in (1) are now lost.

Erm... What's a "TW"?

"Tomorrow Wendy"?
"Three Whiskeys"?
"Tortured Witch"?
"TradeWars"?
"Tickled Woman"?
"Total Waste"?

Perhaps something else? (AKA, it's always wise to use the full expansion
of an abbreviation at least once when there's even a slight ambiguity...)

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Don Bruder <> wrote:

> Perhaps something else? (AKA, it's always wise to use the full expansion
> of an abbreviation at least once when there's even a slight ambiguity...)

TextWrangler, the free text editor from Bare Bones.

In uk.comp.sys.mac we often joke that it's a great editor, but the price
is a little steep.

Jim
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In article <1kididz.1ykfr2x1qzloqiN%> ,
(Jim) wrote:

> Don Bruder <> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps something else? (AKA, it's always wise to use the full expansion
> > of an abbreviation at least once when there's even a slight ambiguity...)
>
> TextWrangler, the free text editor from Bare Bones.

Ahhh... Much more useful. Not that it means much to me now that I know,
since I haven't heard of it before now. (TextEdit and/or the editor in
XCode has served me well enough for the uses I put a text editor to)

Is it unreasonable to assume that this "TextWrangler" beast is the
latest evolution of the old reliable "BBEdit" that I used to use heavily
back in the pre-OSX days?

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In article <jm49si$gvu$>, Don Bruder <>
wrote:

> In article <1kididz.1ykfr2x1qzloqiN%> ,
> (Jim) wrote:
>
> > Don Bruder <> wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps something else? (AKA, it's always wise to use the full expansion
> > > of an abbreviation at least once when there's even a slight ambiguity...)
> >
> > TextWrangler, the free text editor from Bare Bones.
>
> Ahhh... Much more useful. Not that it means much to me now that I know,
> since I haven't heard of it before now. (TextEdit and/or the editor in
> XCode has served me well enough for the uses I put a text editor to)
>
> Is it unreasonable to assume that this "TextWrangler" beast is the
> latest evolution of the old reliable "BBEdit" that I used to use heavily
> back in the pre-OSX days?

BBedit still exists and you pay for it. TW is free although by and large
it's a subset and in essence replaces the old BBEdit Lite.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689