Cool - I was missing that insight. Tim
Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jun 2017, at 18:04, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > One of the more hidden Playground features are named Pages. Double-click the > page tab title and give it a name, it will then be saved automagically in > pharo-local/play-stash (and auto saves on changes from then on). I use that > all the time. > >> On 29 Jun 2017, at 16:45, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: >> >> Hi - I really like the playground metaphor, it really is such a nice way to >> experiment. >> >> However I've noticed that unlike older versions of Smalltalk, it seems that >> DoIt operations in playground don't end up in the .changes file anymore >> (which I guess is a mixed blessing when you want to recover). It seems that >> the new metaphor is that work you do is saved as a page and you can see >> versions of your page in the upper right menu? Well sort of - as I haven't >> quite understood when it saves or doesn't? Often I get duplicate looking >> pages in that menu and often I make a change and want to keep it but find it >> doesn't save and if I accidentally close my playground my changes in a page >> are lost? >> >> What are the semantics of page saving? >> >> An example - if you do a few gofer loads of utilities and the put a comment >> on the first line of the page (which gives it a nice title in the page >> dropdown), sometimes that comment will be saved other times not? >> >> I also think it might be nice to remove page versions to help tidy things >> up. I'm thinking of rolling my sleeves up on this idea - but wanted to >> understand the vision firsts >> >> Tim >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > >
