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- From: simon@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with C Set/2 Editor
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:42:39 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta
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- David Battle (battle@cs.utk.edu) wrote:
- :
- : The editor which is run by default from the Workframe/2 environment when
- : editing source files has developed a strange problem. It saves the file every
- : time a key is pressed! On the first keystroke, it pops up a window telling me
- : I don't need to save because nothing has changed. On the second keystroke
- : it pops up a window telling me the file doesn't have an file type attribute
- : and forces me to select one. Then, as I type the disk chatters away every
- : time I press a key. Makes things really slugish, and it can't be good for
- : the disk. Has anyone seen this symptom before? Is there a way to fix it?
- :
-
- Both E.EXE and EPM.EXE have an autosave option. It sounds like this has been
- set to 1 (keystroke before autosave). Check the settings.
-
- simonn
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