[TxMt] Re: TextMate 2 can quit without offering to save open dirty documents

Stefan Daschek stefan at daschek.net
Sun Jan 19 16:34:58 UTC 2014


No, please don’t nag me about saving untitled documents (as long as I 
have "Open documents from last session" enabled, of course)! I really 
like this behaviour!

Stefan


Am Sun Jan 19 17:25:25 2014 schrieb Curt Sellmer:
> I can reproduce it reliably like this:
>
> Start TextMate.  Press Cmd-N to open a new document.  Type something
> in the file.  Press Cmd-Q to quit.
>
> I am not prompted to save the untitled document.  In preferences I
> have "Open documents from last session" selected.
>
> I start TextMate again, and I am presented with the untitled
> document.  So nothing is lost, but it does seem that I should be
> prompted to save.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Matt Neuburg <matt at tidbits.com
> <mailto:matt at tidbits.com>> wrote:
>
>     I assure you there is no crash and no special "kill". We are
>     quitting in good order. It's just that sometimes (rarely and under
>     circumstances I can't readily reproduce) TextMate "forgets" to
>     offer to save a modified untitled unsaved document. One can only
>     hope that others will notice and report this and that eventually a
>     way of reproducing may be discovered... m.
>
>     On Jan 19, 2014, at 1:52 AM, Allan Odgaard
>     <mailinglist at textmate.org <mailto:mailinglist at textmate.org>> wrote:
>
>     > On 14 Jan 2014, at 1:23, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>     >
>     >> […] Holy cow there are a lot of "untitled" documents in this
>     folder. I don't know whether to be critical that these are kept
>     for so long or to rejoice that these are kept for so long. :) Is
>     it my job to clean these out manually from time to time?
>     >
>     > Ideally TextMate would clean it up, but I think if you select
>     “Don’t Save” during termination, TM will instantly quit before
>     cleaning up potential backup files. There might also be a few
>     other cases. I haven’t considered it a serious issue, instead it’s
>     sort of a feature :)
>     >
>     >> […]
>     >> It just did it again. After using TextMate 2 for a while and
>     then closing everything was open, one by one, I did a New, typed
>     in it, and did a Quit - and TextMate vanished off the screen
>     without offering to save. (And yes, it's in the Session folder all
>     right, saved as "untitled 15".)
>     >
>     > Did you use ⌘Q? Could it be that you have that key overloaded to
>     send “kill” to TextMate?
>     >
>     >> Hmmm, you say "and furthermore not restore it after launch".
>     But on my machine TextMate 2 does not restore anything after
>     launch, ever. This may be because I have unchecked "Open documents
>     from last session." But I have done that because I expect to be
>     offered a chance to save when I quit […]
>     >
>     > With this disabled, it should warn about unsaved untitled
>     documents and does so here.
>     >
>     >> […] There is no "restore after launch" behavior on my machine
>     (with my settings). And that's exactly how I want it - but only
>     because I expect to be offered a chance to save _always_, not just
>     most of the time.
>     >
>     > It should be “always”. I don’t know what could cause it to not
>     do it all the time other than maybe a crash during exit? If you
>     find a pattern then do let us know. To check if you did have a
>     crash during exit, it should have added such info to Notification
>     Center (unless you disabled submitting of crash reports).
>     >
>
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