Subject: Re: Save file format
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 00:22:19 CDT
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Paul Warren wrote:
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> > I seem to recall that this has been discussed before, but having just
> > accidentally sent an important document in Abiword format with a .rtf
> > extension, I thought I'd mention it again.
> >
> > Would it not be more sensible to make "Automatically Selected" the
> > default file type when saving a document? IMHO, being able to save a
> > document in one format whilst the extension suggests another without
> > at least a confirmation dialog is wrong.
> >
>
> I did exactly the same thing. I agree we should use automatically detected
> as default. If no extension is given it is saved in abiword format.
>
And fortunatly, the code for determining file type from extension is
already written - see a patch to do that about 2 months ago. (I forget
both where and by whom, and I can't find it with grep). However, the code
is there.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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