Re: Front window dirty
Re: Front window dirty
- Subject: Re: Front window dirty
- From: Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:30:42 -0700
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> One more thing. In TextEdit in 10.9.5, it also places the text " — Edited" next to the document title in the title bar. I guess enough people miss that subtle dark dot.
There's a difference. The dot means what's in the document is not what's on disk. " — Edited" means what's in the document is not what was last (or ever) explicitly saved.
In applications that support Auto Save, all changes are (at least conceptually) immediately written to disk, so the dot never appears. " — Edited" indicates that even though all your changes have been written, they weren't written as a result of an explicit Save.
The dot can also mean "Closing the window will result in a dialog." For example, Terminal.app shows the dot if you have subordinate tasks running. A document-based application that does not support Auto Save shows the dot to indicate there will be a "Do you want to save your changes?" dialog.
Neither interpretation is universally correct. A never-saved document in an app that supports Auto Save will show a file save dialog if you try to close the window, because if it has never been saved and the window is closed there's no way to reach the document. But it still doesn't show the dot, because all the changes have been written to disk, just not in a file you can see.
-Ron Hunsinger
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