John Levon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:36:47AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > Should we do the same for 'Save'? What do the good UI rules say about > > this? > > I don't know about you but I compulsively save every now and then. I > vaguely remember reading someone's argument about how Save should always > be enabled simply because it's more re-assuring (and in fact I could > imagine a bug where we accidentally mark a document as clean). > And another issue: Lyx may know that the buffer didn't change since the last save, but it _cannot_ know wheter something else messed with the disk file in between.
I occationally have to press <space><backspace> in emacs so it will let me save. Not all filesystems let you know the file was changed, or the changing program reset the access times or some such. . . Helge Hafting
