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> the ability to just close the editor, open it again, and get back the workflow exactly where it was, but unsaved files as well Most text editors I use on Mac
by nottorp 2y ago
> the ability to just close the editor, open it again, and get back the workflow exactly where it was, but unsaved files as well
Most text editors I use on MacOS do that, TextEdit included.
I'm only posting because I had come to think that's the normal behaviour, not an extra... haven't been using non mac os desktops too much in the past years.
- npteljes 2y agoDefinitely normal behavior, and also human, natural behavior. Things are where I left them last time. I understand that in the 90s, disk space was a concern, and that disk operations were a big deal with moving parts, etc. But we really need to move on from this paradigm. I just tested, and it looks like that "new" software does this on Linux, but "old" software didn't modernize. IntelliJ products, VSCodium does this, QOwnNote does it, Kate does it when I explicitly start a session (bit of a nonsense...), and no other software that I use does it: LibreOffice products, KWrite, Geany, GIMP etc all operate on the paradigm that when closing, it asks if it should save the draft document or no.
- nottorp 2y agoHmm incidentally the office-like apple applications seem to want an explicit save. I just started Pages, wrote a sentence in a blank document and it asked me if i want to save or delete it on exit...
- Ghoelian 2y agoTextEdit just asks if you want to save the file when you try to close it. Do you mean it keeps files if it crashes or something?
- nottorp 2y agoAnd across machine restarts.
- Ghoelian 2y agoAh but I suppose that only works if you keep the "Reopen windows" thing checked? I think shutting down without that is the same as just quitting the app, which asks if you want to save (can't quickly test this out as I have to work on this laptop). I always keep that disabled, I absolutely hate that kind of behaviour.