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#1499 Multiple empty buffers can be created
Quoting from Neil Hodgson from another report:
SciTE tries to avoid creating multiple empty buffers. If there is any text in the first tab then New will create another buffer. Fixing this could lead to unwanted buffers and the problem is very limited in scope so I won't be fixing it.
If the first empty buffer has text in it it is possible to create multiple buffers. Relying to the quote SciTE should limit this to 1 buffer.
The referenced issue was [#1471]. I won't be working on this.
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Bugs: #1471
Is there a special reason not fixing this?
It is very unimportant. Why work on it?
If this behavior is really not intended but just unimportant in my opinion it should not be rejected (but it could be delayed as it has a low priority).
Last edit: Sworddragon 2014-04-29
I fail to see why this is of any importance to you. Are you just trying to argue with the previous decision through an indirect means?
I'm just reporting every bug/feature request I'm finding in every application. I have done this already in over 100 applications with many hundred of reports.
https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/1471/ at the end claims that not creating empty buffers is the correct behavior. This tickets is just the logical consequence that SciTE in some cases does indeed create multiple empty buffers and that this could be a bug.
Last edit: Sworddragon 2014-04-29
This is an obscure corner that will not matter to anyone. It is really not worth worrying about.
If you think so there is an easy way: This behavior could be simply declared as the correct behavior so all would be fine here.
Everything is fine: there is an unimportant bug that will not be fixed. Therefore it is marked as open-wont-fix.
I don't know why the ticket got closed now. Maybe the bug is unimportant but it is still valid. In theory a contributor could fix this in the future but closing this ticket makes it more difficult to find such tickets.
No one will ever work on this bug when there are many other bugs that deserve attention.
Having this open means its more difficult to find the bugs that are important.
If you think this bugtracker isn't suitable for handling this I recommend you to create a ticket on the Apache Allura project to get things enhanced.
The bug tracker works perfectly fine. Even if this were a simple text list or the worlds most user-friendly tracker I would still be removing this bug report. Closing bug reports that do not meet a minimal level of usefulness helps the readers of the tracker.