Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
>> Nedit, for example, watches and pops up a dialog box that says:
>> "<file> has been modified by another program. Reload?" with the
>> appropriate buttons. Not a perfect mechanism, but a useful and
>> practical one.
> 
> And if you've just spent the last hour editing the file, you're
> screwed.

Yep. It isn't a perfect mechanism, just a reasonably effective, pragmatic one.

Don't seek rigor when you should be pragmatic (at the UI). Don't be too sloppily pragmatic when you should be rigorous (at the foundations).

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