I love N++, it's fantastic, but there are still little niggly things that bug me about it.
One is the completely inability to edit READ ONLY files. Regardless of the file's state, I need to be able to edit AND save it, if I can't save it as the existing file, then as a new file (in the same working directory as the current file).
Please do as notepad and pretty much every other editor does and offer to Save As if a Save won't work. Please :)
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I love N++, it's fantastic, but there are still little niggly things that bug me about it.
One is the completely inability to edit READ ONLY files. Regardless of the file's state, I need to be able to edit AND save it, if I can't save it as the existing file, then as a new file (in the same working directory as the current file).
Please do as notepad and pretty much every other editor does and offer to Save As if a Save won't work. Please :)
If it is readonly you do NOT want to be able to save it as the existing file !!
You CAN open a Read-Only file, then Save-As, and then edit that renamed-tab fine - just did this in v3.8; - so there is no real problem ?
I can see one small issue, in that File-Open, does
not allow OpenAsRead only (usefull for when you are doing source merge, and do not want to goof).
Edit.SetReadOnly is close, but requires a 2 menu action.
jmg_