Re: st: do-file corruption?

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

If both editors are being used simultaneously to edit the same file, this can happen. File 
xyz.do is opened in the do-file editor, and then also opened in notepad++. Neither of 
these programs perform "file locking", so they allow you to edit the same file twice. Here 
is a potential scenario...

  * open xyz.do in both the do-file editor and notepad++.
  * In the do-file editor, make lots of changes and additions to xyz.do.
  * Save xyz.do in the do-file editor.
  * Quit the do file editor.
  * In notepad++ save xyz.do.

The last step kills all changes saved in the do-file editor. Even if this is not Tatyana's 
problem, it is a cautionary tale for anyone who uses two editors on a do-file 
simultaneously. I have personally lost changes this way.

Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-11-24 7.03 AM, Tatyana Deryugina wrote:
> I'm using Notepad++ and the built-in editor. The problem only happens
> when I open a file with the built-in editor, after which I also cannot
> open it normally with Notepad++. There is no relationship (as far as I
> can tell) between opening it in Notepad++ and subsequent corruption.
>
> Best,
> Tatyana
>
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