[Gambas-devel] Project feature request to follow symbolic links and allow to edit/save them.

[Ron]

Anyway the right click menu on those entries in the tree say 'Edit' so he...
Something is a contradiction here.. ;-)

Regards,
Ron.

2013/8/5 Ron <ron at ...572...>:
> Hi Benoit,
>
> what exactly do you mean by 'owned by the project'?
>
> The symbolic links show up in project tree, see attachment and it can
> run the project fine.
> So yeah the project knows and uses the files already.
> Why not have the option to edit them.
>
> I don't want to be able to edit them at the same time from two ide's.
> But you have the same issue if you changes files with vi and/or sed
> 'under water' now.
> You have to refresh the project.
>
> Regards,
> Ron.
>
>
> 2013/8/5 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>> Le 05/08/2013 14:53, Ron a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to request a new project preference which -when enabled- will
>>> allow to edit/save files where a symbolic link points to.
>>>
>>> Now symbolic links are displayed with an 'symbolic link' icon which is
>>> ok but the files are opened read only.
>>>
>>> I have two big projects sharing as much as 90 files.
>>>
>>> I can somehow understand the current behavior, but all unix editors
>>> (vi, gedit, file browser) allow you to edit the files when opened
>>> through their symbolic links.
>>> So the current behavior is kinda unconventional.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ron.
>>>
>>
>> The reason why symbolic links are read-only is because they are supposed
>> to be owned by their original project, and so you have to open it to
>> edit them.
>>
>> Maybe the IDE could automatically open the original project to edit
>> symbolic links then?
>>
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini
>>
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